It’s not about whether you succeed or fail at a problem. It’s about whether you can learn from it.

Terence Tao

1. Listen
2. Clarify Questions, Assumptions
3. Take Notes
4. Build Example
5. Brute Force
6. Optimize
7. Pros and Cons
8. Demonstrate: Draw
9. Take Notes
10. Code
11. Code Review with Test – Break it!
12. Fix Problems
13. Complexity Analysis
14. Refactor
15. Discuss