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Scheduling Meeting Rooms

Caren edited this page May 27, 2018 · 6 revisions

Question: Given an array of meeting time intervals consisting of start and end times [[start1, end1], [start2,end2],...] find the minimum number of conference rooms required.

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  • start by trying to solve the problem without sorting
    • demonstrate why it becomes an increasingly complicated problem if the meeting rooms aren't sorted first
  • write about how we should have started by writing out a couple of cases so we fully understand the problem
  • briefly discuss how the problem could be optimized ithe meeting rooms were sorted
  • discuss how the meeting rooms should be sorted. by start time? end time? duration?
  • talk about the advantages of creating helper functions such as sortMeetingRoomsByStartTime()
  • discuss how the problem can be thought of differently now that we have sorted meeting rooms
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