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How did competitive programming help?
Training and taking part in programming contests make you more a more disciplined, faster and focused coder. Taking part in competitive programming teaches you how to be more focused on the task and not only complete it quickly, but accurately. These skills are highly beneficial for any job, not just in coding.
How does coding affect your life?
Coding Boosts our Brain! Learning a programming language is not only adding new skills to our thinking. It’s also a way to take a fresh look at life. It boosts our brain to deal in a different way with the challenges that it poses.
How coding changed your life Quora?
Coding gave me a way to make a living from something creative and intellectually stimulating, and learning to code later in life taught me to keep learning.
What is competitive programming and why is it important?
What is competitive programming? Competitive programming is a sport. You have to solve a problem with code that is fast, consumes the minimum amount of memory, and is often practically unreadable. It is super popular among university students and those trying to get into big companies, primarily because it helps them get placed in those companies.
How long does it take to become a competitive programmer?
, 25+ years of software engineering, mostly in C and Perl, mostly in the BSD networking stack and Unix utilitie… Competitive pogramming is not a trivial game . It requires continuous practice and brushing up your concepts. Have patience . It does take some time to master basic concepts required in competitive programming.
Are there any competitive programming competitions with no age limits?
And then there is whole bunch of individual competitions with no age limits, and some team competitions (like OpenCup, SnackDown etc.) with no age limits, so you are totally fine for those. There are strong red coders who started competitive programming in mid-20s (for example, you may check this thread: How old are you?
How long does it take to learn competitive programming and DSA?
Sitting for interviews like this and hoping you can solve a toy question you prepared for 3-5 months learning just DSA and competitive programming is one way. There’s another way – it’ll work with fewer companies and people, but you’ll enjoy it, and learn a lot of real-world things along the way.