Added notebook solving the following: Determine if a string s1 is a rotation of another string s2.

arrays-strings/rotation.ipynb

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+    "## Problem: Determine if a string s1 is a rotation of another string s2.  Also write a function is_substring which you can only call once to determine whether a rotation occurs\n",
+    "\n",
+    "* [Clarifying Questions](#Clarifying-Questions)\n",
+    "* [Test Cases](#Test-Cases)\n",
+    "* [Algorithm](#Algorithm)\n",
+    "* [Code](#Code)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Clarifying Questions\n",
+    "\n",
+    "* Is the string ASCII (extended)?  Or Unicode?\n",
+    "    * ASCII extended, which is 256 characters\n",
+    "* Can you use additional data structures?  \n",
+    "    * Yes\n",
+    "* Is this case sensitive?\n",
+    "    * Yes"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Test Cases\n",
+    "\n",
+    "* Any strings that differ in size results in False\n",
+    "* NULL, 'foo' -> False (any NULL results in False)\n",
+    "* ' ', 'foo' -> False\n",
+    "* ' ', ' ' -> True\n",
+    "* 'foobarbaz', 'barbazfoo' -> True"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Algorithm\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Using the following test case:\n",
+    "* s1 = 'barbazfoo'\n",
+    "* s2 = 'foobarbaz'\n",
+    "\n",
+    "We see that if we can use the given is_substring method if we take compare s2 with s1 + s1:\n",
+    "* s2 = 'foobarbaz'\n",
+    "* s3 = 'barbaz*foobarbaz*foo'\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Complexity:\n",
+    "* Time: O(n)\n",
+    "* Space: O(2n) of additional space for s3, which reduces to O(n)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Code"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
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+   },
+   "outputs": [],
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+    "def is_substring(s1, s2):\n",
+    "    return s1 in s2\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def is_rotation(s1, s2):\n",
+    "    if s1 is None or s2 is None:\n",
+    "        return False\n",
+    "    if len(s1) != len(s2):\n",
+    "        return False\n",
+    "    s3 = s1 + s1\n",
+    "    return is_substring(s2, s3)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "print(is_rotation('o', 'oo'))\n",
+    "print(is_rotation(None, 'foo'))\n",
+    "print(is_rotation('', 'foo'))\n",
+    "print(is_rotation('', ''))\n",
+    "print(is_rotation('foobarbaz', 'barbazfoo'))"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
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