The Basics of Leetcoding

Ok, so there is this website called Leetcode. It has a bunch of coding problems on it. But perhaps it can be a little daunting as it has thousands of such problems.
Which problems do you start with first? Well, there is a great resource called Neetcode started by someone who I think became a SWE at Google.
At The Neetcode Roadmap you can find a directed graph of Leetcode problems broken down into categories. I'm starting with the Neetcode 150, a collection of 150 problems. Once that's complete, I'm planning on moving on to the Neetcode 250 and doing the extra 100 problems in there.

The directed graph starts with Arrays and Hashing. On Friday, February 6, 2026, I attempted the first problem in there on the Neetcode 150, 217. Contains Duplicate: My Solution