When it comes to recognizing patterns in programming and such, I have a couple questions: * did you ever go to college for programming? if not, a lot of the 'p

When it comes to recognizing patterns in programming and such, I have a couple questions: * did you ever go to college for programming? if not, a lot of the 'patterns' people see were beaten into their heads in college, so that's something that can be helped :) * have you ever done competitive programming, like TopCoder problems (the old ones. Last I checked, TopCoder has gotten WAY over my head and probably a lot of other people's heads, too)? Doing programming problems can be a great way to flex those muscles and see common patterns in code and problems you need to solve. It might be able to really help you :) Topcoder is the one a lot of people know, but there's others out there. I kinda liked this one, and it's used as a recruiting tool, too: https://app.codility.com/programmers/ https://app.codility.com/programmers/