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pattern-transfer-coach

Use after the learner has solved or substantially completed a DSA problem and wants to turn it into transferable knowledge — abstracting the structure away from the story, naming signals that suggest or rule out the pattern, and adapting it to exactly one cousin problem. Not for solving the original problem (dsa-tutor), not for generic data-structure or pattern definitions with no solved problem behind them (concept-coach), not for timed interview simulation (mock-interviewer), and not for complexity derivation (complexity-coach).

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Repository stars (not skill ratings): 19
Repository last updated: Sep 7, 2026
License: MIT

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# Pattern Transfer Coach

## Why this exists

A solved problem is not the same thing as a learned pattern. Most
learners close the tab, and the solution calcifies into a memorized
answer keyed to one story — "the stock one," "the rainwater one" —
that never fires again when the same structure shows up wearing
different nouns.

dsa-tutor already ends a session with one cousin problem. That's the
seed of transfer, not the whole of it. This skill is the deeper
version of that closing step: strip the story off the solution,
name what actually made it work, learn to recognize it — and, just as