14-Day Whiteboard Ramp

The day-by-day plan for the two weeks before a whiteboarding / live-coding interview, and the only place the daily loop and calendar live. The method (CLARP, panic first-aid, scripts, rubric) is sheet 10. Each day is a focused four-hour block. Record every rep.

Print this stack (the physical desk)

The booklet (booklet.pdf) — decision trees + one algorithm per page.
Sheets 01, 03, 05 — stdlib, algorithm templates, pattern triggers (open every day).
Sheet 10 — the method (read it fully on Day 1).
Sheet 07 — interview-day logistics (Week 2).
This sheet (11) — check off a row a day.

The daily loop (board ↔ IDE)

Pick: just study-spaced 1 → today's drill.
Present cold: just interview <topic> <problem> — prints the problem statement only (no approach, no complexity) and strips the solution.
Board: phone recording ON. Stand. Run CLARP out loud (sheet 10 §2), start to finish, no editor.
IDE: implement your board solution in the stripped file; just study <topic> until tests pass. Say out loud where the typed version differed from the board version, and why.
Score: watch 2 min of tape, grade the sheet-10 §5 rubric, log it: just rep "<topic>/<problem> C2 L1 A2 R1 P2 <one fix>".
Mark: just challenge-done <topic> <problem> (feeds spaced repetition).

Four-hour allocation

Time	Work
0:00-0:10	Arrival ritual: breathing + worry dump + reappraisal + choose first draw
0:10-1:40	Two cold board reps, 35 min each, camera on
1:40-2:40	IDE implementation + tests for both reps
2:40-3:10	Tape review + rubric + one logged fix per rep
3:10-3:40	Targeted refresher for the miss, not passive browsing
3:40-4:00	Spaced-repetition closeout + tomorrow's first miss queued

Example cycle (fill in your own dates)

This run: Day 1 = Sun Jul 5, 2026, interviews ≈ Jul 20. Adjust the anchor; the shape holds for any two-week window.

Week 1 — build the reflex (correctness + narration)

Day	Focus	Drills (`just interview`)	Sheets open	Watching
1	Read sheet 10 cover-to-cover, then easy arrays	`arrays two_sum`, `arrays group_anagrams`	10, 03, 01	camera
2	Arrays + stacks/queues	`arrays product_except_self`, `stacks_queues valid_parentheses`, `stacks_queues daily_temperatures`	03, 05, 01	camera
3	Sliding window + binary search — practice a deliberate blank + recovery (sheet 10 §3)	`sliding_window longest_substring_no_repeat`, `searching binary_search`, `searching search_rotated_array`	03, 05	camera
4	BFS/DFS + linked lists	`graphs number_of_islands`, `graphs course_schedule`, `linked_lists reverse_linked_list`	03, 02	camera
5	Trees + heaps — first human rep	`trees validate_bst`, `trees level_order_traversal`, `heaps kth_largest`	02, 03	person
6	Trees/trie + shore up your weakest rubric row	`trees trie`, 2 review draws	08, 02	person
7	Rest (or one light review rep). Rest is training.	—	—	—

Week 2 — pressure + breadth (collaboration + hard cases)

Day	Focus	Drills (`just interview`)	Sheets open	Watching
8	Graphs (heaviest topic — most reps)	`graphs dijkstra`, `graphs topological_sort`, `graphs bellman_ford`	03, 06	person interrupts with "why?"
9	Dynamic programming	`dp coin_change`, `dp edit_distance`, `dp knapsack`, `dp longest_increasing_subseq`	03	person interrupts
10	Mixed cold draws, full 35-min mock format. If your targets differ by language, hand-write one solution in each (scratch file, `c++ -std=c++20 -Wall`).	`just study-spaced 3`	07, 05	camera
11	Backtracking + greedy + strings	`backtracking subsets`, `backtracking n_queens`, `greedy merge_intervals`, `strings valid_palindrome`	03, 05	person
12	Full mock panel — back-to-back problems, on camera, with a person	3 cold draws	07, 10 (§7 card)	person
13	Taper. Re-watch your best tapes (not worst) to lock in the felt sense of a good rep. Light reps only.	1 easy draw	10 (§7)	camera
14	Rest. Arrive rested, not crammed. Read the sheet-10 §7 panic card + sheet 07. Practice the board-dump only.	—	10 (§7), 07	—

The target is not a perfect score — it's +1 on your weakest rubric row each day. Fourteen days of +1 is a transformed interview. You've got this.