I can't answer this, because I never prepped. In a sense I pre-prepped, because I competed in national level programming competitions while in school. My feeli

I can't answer this, because I never prepped. In a sense I pre-prepped, because I competed in national level programming competitions while in school. My feeling is that it didn't help at all, because programming competition and programming are quite different skills. But I can't say for certain.