Advice for practice on coding question - easy, medium to hard questions

April 12, 2016

Good Sharing from the following blog:
Know new people and their success story:

Easy, medium questions, just for coding, not much algorithm. Practice coding questions. And then, move to hard questions. And come back to easy, medium questions again, to improve speed.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Ahmed-Aly-practice-for-competitive-programming

Very good story:

https://www.quora.com/Whom-do-you-respect-the-most-in-the-world-living-Why/answer/Ahmed-Aly?srid=o3vR

How to improve? Solve a lot of problems, easy problems.

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Julia's thought:

No time to write your own solutions. Then, read a lot of solution, over 100 solution for one problem. Easy problem, string, on HackerRank, read all kinds of solutions, more than 20 of them; and try to understand them first.

Coach gave tips how to improve quickly?
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Talk about bugs: 
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Julia's thought:
Debug takes time.

Relax and read more coding blog:
From MSFT, and
https://www.quora.com/profile/Duncan-Smith-23

http://www.redgreencode.com/

weekly bolog about TopCoder competitive algorithms:
http://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-doubles-week.html