An advice for competitive programming

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Good share buddy.

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Thanks buddy !
U pointed out the problem that every programmer faces it , atleast once in the entire journey of becoming best.

  • Can u provide the links to useful tutorials that can really help me in competitive prog ?
    (Data structures book and cormen are boring for me ! :frowning: )
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Hey @shreyansh98, you can follow this link:

Data Structures and Algorithms

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" Even learning new topics now is not as important as practice. If you solve till div2 D on codeforces, you are a purple/high blue. New topics are only needed for div1 C/div2 E and if you solve them fast, you have a high chance of being a yellow or red."

As I said, you don’t need to follow a list of topics and study it day and night. Just practice the problems, enjoy solving them and be good at solving them. Just this will take you to high blue/purple on codeforces.

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Well, I don’t think I am qualified to answer this because even I can’t solve many medium+ level question. Maybe this(http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/16599) can help you figure out the answer to the question.

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Thank you. :slight_smile:

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u finally realised what I was telling u in the camp about practising instead of learning new stuff. For me it was the opposite. I only practised (at least the time that I am allowed laptop access around 1hr/day ) but procastinated on learning new stuff and so the camp turned out to be pretty helpful even though I didn’t understand stuff like suffix automata, fft and all but those easy lectures, informal lectures and stuff learned from people like u was a lot. Looking forward to implementing and practising that stuff. Btw, those words by Kevin r really inspiring.

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This means a lot.

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@mathecodician You said,“I like debugging more than learning new stuff”…thats…weird. And yeah, I am really happy to have been of use to someone and that you learned some stuff from me too :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thank you for your inspiring words :slight_smile:

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I said I like solving problems more than learning new stuff. So, Addhyan said that for most people it was the opposite and asked whether I like debugging. So I replied ‘yes’.

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it was really helpful for me !!

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I want to thank you for your words as they actually inspired me to practice more and more.

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Thank you too :slight_smile:

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Thank you :slight_smile:

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Nice recommendation!

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that was a seriously inspiring:)

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Some of the lines are like mine thoughts which appear in my mind sometimes. Good to see that still i am not completely wrong.

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Thank you :slight_smile:

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I think you are talking about the searching for “How to be better” type of questions. I have noticed that many people do the same. Searching for motivation without actually doing the work and getting hands dirty. I hope I can bring about a change in myself and other people too who do the same. :slight_smile:

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