It is fun, challenging and can greatly improve your algorithmic, optimization and general language skills. There are numerous contests organized, with many having prizes. Knowing Competitive Programming can greatly help you in job interviews.
Share resources, must-solve and interesting problems, language-specific tip and tricks, or whatever comes to your mind!
Tommorow is Google Code Jam round 1B, don't forget to participate if qualified.
Liam Sullivan
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Jace Morgan
FUCK OFF ADVERTISE ON 4CHAN YOU FUCKING SHITS
Ryder Campbell
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Carter Wilson
India wins by default when the USA fails to show up. Think about it.
John Bennett
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Nathaniel Ortiz
Programming just to program is boring and for autists.
Sebastian Stewart
Feel free to fuck off this board anytime.
Christopher Roberts
lol
Jose Richardson
it's almost like coding interviews reveal little to nothing about the true skill of a programmer
Ryan Wright
it's not made from scratch, it's just a fork of IntelliJ™ Idea™
Michael Scott
If any of you participated in todays Code Jam, how were you supposed to solve C?
I've tried a backtracking sulution with a priority_queue, but TLE unfortunately on cases with close to 100 cities
Isaiah Nelson
lmao
Elijah Fisher
Even so. That Google would pick something that horrendous speaks volumes.
David Thompson
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Christian Murphy
I JUST WANT TO CODE FOR MONEY FFS
Cameron Cox
Go back to gamer gate. You are not welcome among people with above 100 IQ
Evan Rogers
Can you get some kind of financial benefit out of these sites if you're not a top-tier code wizard?
I've heard that the only people who get job offers based on their comp prog results are those in the top 10 or something, and I feel like if you're there you probably already have a job and/or income.
Charles Lewis
Doing toy projects won't make you better, you have to actually want to create something useful. If you're programming just to re-invent the wheel then don't bother.
Luke Lopez
Yeah it does, any programming is good exercise. Anyway, "useful" is subjective. I don't find most software they make these days useful at all. Especially not anything for desktop or modern web. That shit's all fucking unusable and hostile afaic.
Cooper Evans
All the sites are literally just cover for H1-B visa hiring. The solutions are widely posted on the internet so you can fudge your scores easily to loophole the "skilled worker" clause.
