Coding blog small talk

April 25, 2017

Introduction

Coding blog is part of my daily routine and then Julia also tries to learn something daily. Today I chose to study Sharapova through her tennis interview. Here are the interviews I went through and I liked the candid talk about sports, competition, design talk and business training etc.

Right now, Sharapova will come back to tennis sport this April using wildcard of tournament because she lost her ranking last 15 months. It is tough for her to come back like that, I also learns from Sharapova. It is amazing that Sharapova can express herself so well using English, amazed that she does not have time to go to college, but her intelligence and logic thinking is so well.

Maria Sharapova Opens up About Doping Suspension, Appeal, Return to tennis - Today video is here.
Maria Sharapova on training and preparing for WTA Tour comeback - link is here.
Sharapova's return - link is here.
Larray King - Maria Sharpova on locker room friendship - link is here.
Larry King - Serena is An Incredible Athelet - link is here.
2012 Alex Zolbert - Maria Sharapova's CNN talk Asia interview Part I - link is here. 7 minutes 38 seconds

2013 - Brisbane international 2013 - link is here.

Note:
I - Julia, the blogger write usually like to write using she instead of I.
She - sharapova

Coding blog small talk 

Big thanks to Google to provide Blogger such wonderful product, Julia enjoys the work daily to write down everything, and then she can rely on the Blogger, help her to share what her work and also provide a plaform for her to push herself to work hard and concentrate more on the coding. 

Julia was so surprised but she found a fact that top tier companies young programmers most of them can really perform high level coding skills, in terms of Hackerrank algorithm level, hacerrank.com, yelp.com, Alibaba.com, Google, Microsoft, all those player score high than Julia. Julia only performs top performer 30% and it takes her more time to reach the 30%, estimated 50% more time.

It took a four years until 2015 Julia decided to open herself and then shifted her focus on a most simple thing - coding, write down algorithm, show the naive, baby step to the world. She looked back the blogs she wrote in early 2015 and code she wrote early in 2015, the tough algorithm she felt and troubled over a week in 2015, now it was so natural for her to come cross the similar algorithm very often through her routine contest, weekly practice, mocking practices etc.

Another fact is that a lot of people work so hard to advance their coding skills, algorithm problem solving, but julia also likes to work on her writing skills in the same time.

Julia also found out that she learned better from tennis tournament - WTA, ATP events, professional tennis players. She spent over five hundred of hours to play tennis from 2012 to 2015, she got the experience how she gained the skills through hundreds of double matches, single matches, she played those 3 years tennis more than over 14 years in total in Florida, hundred time more, she played with over hundreds of hitting partners. She first experienced that tennis sports is her personal sports, she enjoys the sports and understands the hard work.

All she likes to do is to transfer last 3 years intense practise experience of tennis to coding. Coding can be tremendously improved by going through contest, competitive programming, all she has to do is to practice more, using Blogger to help her to manage the journey, get the data and analyse them.