justlearn

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   by justlearn 12y ago

   TopCoder and CodeForces have competitions roughly every week and last 2 hrs long. You can also 'compete' (unranked, but will be timed) in old competitions on CodeForces or browse a huge laundry list of old problems. Most of the to
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   by justlearn 12y ago

   Why are students from foreign universities, particularly those in Russia, China, so good at these competitions relative to their peers from the US? I understand it allows for good job placement and its harder to get a job as an immigrant, b
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   by justlearn 12y ago

   They may not directly test programming mettle- not sure how one would test this anyway, its such a vague term- but they test knowledge of algorithms, data structures, bug testing, abstract reasoning and intense problem solving. And usually