hey can anyone suggest any good book that contains such kind of questions ...........
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Vexorian <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am a decent programmer and when I started out I too was looking for > those elusive tips and tricks that the top rated programmers know of. True, > there are quite a few "little things" that would separate a good from an > awesome programmer but none the less its all about practice. Just like math > or sports! > > Hehe, you mentioned math before sports. > > >So most of you say that it is only practice that matters the most. Is it? > > I don't think they said so, but actually that practice does 95% of it. > > >These top guys not only understand the problem but they also know which > algo > to use within maybe 10 minutes that is something amazing and amusing. > pratice can tlel you what to use. bu what the problem is exactly it > takes > time atleast some time.. > > Actually, knowing what solution to use does come from practice. I am > not near the top at all but at least problems A and B didn't take me > more than 10 minutes to know how to solve, but that was almost mostly > because of practice (I compete in things like this around once every > 1.5 weeks). > > >So the question is still open how come some guys are so fast but rest are > not.. If the difference was not that much I am sure I wud have never > asked > this question.. > > This time the problems were all easy, you should wait to see what > happens in say... round 3. I can tell you that there are people who > are able to do in 2 hours what I cannot do in 7 days and they are the > ones that will go to the final. Nonetheless, whenever any of them is > asked regarded why are they so good, they always reply it is practice. > In fact, if you could for example consider someone like Petr Mitrichev > - he has been practicing with math puzzles since he was 12 years old. > > > On May 8, 2:45 pm, "Sarma Tangirala" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: vivek dhiman <[email protected]> > > > > Sender: [email protected] > > Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 00:08:12 > > To: <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [gcj] Re: fast and furious > > > > yeah! tell us how some guys are doing too fast. > > > > Do they know the patterns cuz of practice a lot or do they have high > > intelligence . > > Or they know some thing which we don't.. there is got to be something.. > > > > Regards > > Vivek Dhiman > > > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:04 AM, ravi shanker <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Actually there are lot of things but....can somebody share his personal > > > exp....how has he prepared...and become the warrior. > > > > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 AM, vivek dhiman <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >> It's not about macros. I have observed that writing code doesn't take > even > > >> 5 mins once you know what to code. > > > > >> But these guys are very fast. They figure out the alog in may be 5 > mins > > >> what algo to use. I mean that is freaking awesome. > > > > >> ow come they do it. Is it only practice or am I missing something? > > > > >> All kinds of help will be appreciated. There are lots of rounds to > go.. > > > > >> Regards > > >> Vivek Dhiman > > > > >> -- > > >> 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. > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Regards > > Vivek Dhiman > > > > -- > > 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 athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- * K.Rahul ) * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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