To Hamza, The best way to learn is to do. Look at some old problems, and try and work out how you would approach them in a contest situation. https://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html has some suggestions of good problems for a new contestant to try.
Don't get disheartened if you find it hard initially. Lots of great programmers I know would struggle with the qualification rounds, and most would not reach Round 2. It's a very different skill set (with some overlap) to being a great programmer, but it can be exceedingly enjoyable. Welcome to the club, and I hope you enjoy the ride! Luke On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Luke Pebody <l...@pebody.org> wrote: > Sorry, I cannot agree with this claim. People can certainly do well with > just java. Or just python. Or just c++. Or just haskell. Possibly just vba, > but that's pushing things. > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Fa Bel <faruqbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hamza, I think you should wait until next year, because you need more >> than just java for this thing >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Hamza Mushaiti <hamzade...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This my first time to be in Google Code Jam >>> >>> I have learned Java but should i learn to be good competitor? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google Code Jam" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/a9025f9d-f937-45f9-8c4d-91c32f64d329%40googlegroups.com >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Code Jam" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAP27nz4-Umtor4c%3DJJeTGW--zWXhikuNiJ7y6Y5TvDk02XjU4Q%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAP27nz4-Umtor4c%3DJJeTGW--zWXhikuNiJ7y6Y5TvDk02XjU4Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAECKw-NbErecg_bsmpB2hQw7Zy3VrtTJN760RjXKeVv4QrvzTg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
