Code RoomWord search on board
HardPrep Room Coding #79

Word search on board

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~40 min

Given an m x n board of lowercase letters and a single target word, return true if the word can be formed by a path of 4-directionally adjacent cells where each cell is used at most once. The path may start at any cell. The word is non-empty. The board has at least one cell.

Implement
word_exists(board: list[list[str]], word: str) → bool
Examples
in[[["a","b","c","e"],["s","f","c","s"],["a","d","e","e"]],"abcced"]outtrue
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

0:00 of about 40 min
InputExpectedGot
[[["a","b","c","e"],["s","f","c","s"],["a","d","e","e"]],"abcced"]truenot run yetsample