I agree with the last point completely.. not so much with the others.. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Satyajit Malugu <malugu.satya...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Prolific Coder <prolific.co...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM > Subject: Competency levels > To: google-code@googlegroups.com > > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > Satyajit > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
