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For Competitive Programming Beginners

By dickynovanto1103, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hi, I created a medium article (don't worry it's not starred article) to share about my thoughts on how to start CP for beginners: https://medium.com/@dickynovanto1103/competitive-programming-beginner-starter-pack-3564e717a890. Feel free to read it and also feel free to comment and give advices. Thanks

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Thank you very much dickynovanto1103! I hope it will help me with my bad rating.

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    sure..hope it helps you. Don't forget to enjoy in the learning process :)

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      Did you raise your rating using own methods you talked in an article?

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        When I was at about your rating, I learnt structurally in UVA, learnt the basics, got more confidence, and thus got Expert rating rapidly. (However, I don't recommend you to learn from UVA because of the judging issue they have now).

        After getting expert rating, I was wondering why I can't advance more than expert. Everything is kinda a plateau and I was asking why. Then I realized just around this time that I was learning wrongly, I started to solve problems randomly in CF (not structured), reading hard techniques and just learning it on the surface which is quite not beneficial.

        So those that I mentioned in the article are the things that I wish I have in mind when I was / am at plateau and I think this might be suitable for beginners who are struggling and not having significant improvements.

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Hello, thanks a lot for the nice article!

And also, nice to meet you!
I've followed you on codeforces, and hoping for more helpful articles!

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    Thanks. Hopefully we can enjoy the learning process and improve along the way.

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