Javascript: Change the articles linked in the assignment of the space complexity lesson

[RaihanSharif]

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The two articles linked in the assignment are, in my opinion, insufficient. As per user comments on the first article, it appears to be causing confusion about whether space complexity includes the space taken up by the input as well as auxiliary space, or just the auxiliary space.

When describing example 2 in the article, the author says it has space complexity of O(n), but when discussing example 3, she cites example 2 as an iterative O(1).

The article uses Ruby, and while the syntax is not difficult to understand, it adds a small extra cognitive overheads for students in the Javascript path. An article using Js or plain pseudocode may be better.

If mods/admins like the idea I can suggest better articles, and if those article(s) are approved, I can update the lesson.

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Node / JS

Lesson Url

https://dev.to/mwong068/big-o-space-complexity-lcm

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freakzilla149

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[rlmoser99]

Thank you for taking the time to make this suggestion. In the past I believe that we have wanted to keep the ruby and javascript lessons in sync, but maybe we should revisit this stance.

Can someone on the @TheOdinProject/ds-a team take a look at this?