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Follow-Up Questions After Coding
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Follow-Up Questions After Coding

MediumPython

Problem

What follow-up questions did you get after your initial coding solution, and how did you respond?

Given a short description of an initial solution, return the applicable follow-up topics in a consistent order. Cover complexity, correctness, edge cases, testing, and optimization when the description mentions them.

Input is a non-empty string. Output is a list of unique follow-up topic names.

Constraints

  • initial_solution is a non-empty string
  • The input contains at most 10^5 characters
  • Topic names must be returned in the predefined order
  • Each topic appears at most once

Function Signature

def follow_up_topics(initial_solution):
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