I know how you feel. I've been programming for living for 30 years. I have a reputation for being the smartest and brightest programmer people have ever seen. But in this group I'm going to be lucky to finish in the top third. These guys are really really good!!!
Your best bet is to keep working on the 2008 practice problems. Techniques you find there are often helpful in solving new problems. On Friday 04 September 2009 08:26:44 Satyajit Malugu wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Prolific Coder <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM > Subject: Competency levels > To: [email protected] > > > I do programming for a living and I think I am not bad. I have been in > programming interviews before and could solve 90% of questions. > But this is different, I mean I am reading questions and deciding which one > to solve and TADA, I see solutions being submitted! I felt so bad > and incompetent. Are others that good? Or worse am I that bad? > > But alas, I took minimum of 5 hours to solve the first problem. And I know > that if I don't change my methodology or practise I will not move forward. > I want to give it my best shot and since I have a long weekend try to > practice as much as I can. > > Can you guys share the techniques or the mind set for solving the problems > fastly? > > Some of things I observed so far. > > 1. Don't try new languages or techniques. > 2. Already have your IDE and language,debugger and scaffolding setup. > 3. Its OK to hardcode > 4. cpp is the language of choice ( but I don't agree like many others) > 5. Practice regex's you have to become damn good at them. > 6. Practice, practice and more practice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
