m.ajaj94's blog

By m.ajaj94, history, 8 years ago, In English

Hello There i have fallen madly in love with competitive programming and have been training hard for the past year, the thing is first six months i have noticed a difference in the way i think and the way i approach a problem... but after that it feels like i'm stuck in my place with no noticeable difference my way of working is that i participate in every round on codeforces and end up probably solving Problems A and B, sometimes C but only when C is relatively easy. i try to get more knowledgeable by reading about different topics, data structures and algorithms online, and by reading the book Competitive Programming 3 and trying to solve its problems. The issue is i still can't really see any noticeable improvement. Is this the proper way for practicing ? am i speaking too soon because it takes more than a year to accomplish this feat ? or is there another way i should be doing this ? I aspire to reach ICPC one day but i am 21 years old now... could this be accomplished in your opinion ?

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8 years ago, # |
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Practice algorithms that you know in theory. During codeforces round start with C (in your case). Don't care about rating.

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    I think it doesn't matter from which problem you start.

    P.S. There are a lot of blogs like yours, read them and try to find your problem.

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      I can't find any blog like his blog..can u put a link ?

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      could you please provide a link to such blogs ?

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    Thanks for the advice i might try that :D