Can you pass a software engineering interview question?

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The creator presents a software engineering interview question based on the game Battleships to test the viewer's knowledge of data structures. He uses a ByteByteGo cheat sheet as a visual aid to explain the concept of choosing the right data structure for efficiency.

Structure

1Introduce the interview question
2Explain the rules of Battleships
3Pose the technical challenge
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The creator displays a ByteByteGo cheat sheet on screen as a reference for data structures.

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Software Engineering Interview Question YOU BATTLESHIPS Data Structure Illustration Use Cases List Array Stack Queue Heap Tree Suffix Tree Graph R-tree Hash Table

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Can you pass a software engineering interview question? This is a question I've been asked. I'm going to ask one component of the question, and if you get this one component right, then you probably have the question right. So you have the game Battleships. If you don't know what it is, it's basically like you have ships on the ocean. The opponent picks specific places in a matrix where they might think your ship is. If they hit your ship and it hit all pieces of your ship, your ship goes down, you lose the game. Or vice versa, you win the game. So the question is, how do you represent all these ships in memory? So like what data structure do you use in order to represent the battleships? Now understand, efficiency is key. How you represent the data will then determine how you render the data and how you access and change the data. There is a very inefficient way to represent this and there is a very efficient way to represent this. And you only pass if you pick the efficient way.