On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 22:05:26 +0200 Martin Kühne <mysat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Mattias Andrée > <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > > Programming contests can be fun, but it depends on the > > competition, some barely have a focus on programming > > but mathematics instead. I don't see them as promoting > > bad practices, you are under extraordinary pressure so > > this should not influence your programming practices > > under normal conditions. I don't think the skills, that > > are generally useful for programming contests, are > > generally useful in other contexts. I hope recruiters > > realise the differences in programming competitions and > > what the employee will be doing, but that has merits > > similar to any other contests, mathematics skills, and > > other problem solving skills such as solving puzzles. > > It shows competitive attitude and cognitive > > capabilities. > > > I even see programming skills wrt free / open source > projects different to those an employer would expect. An > employer sooner says they're disappointed of somebody's > performance, while my personally growing patchset may > never actually ripen to be submitted to upstream for all > the various reasons. Maybe it's my own code that sucks, > but maybe it's the project's design decisions or upstream > maintainer's understanding which is incompatible with the > work. Nobody has to be loyal to anybody else in these > matters, which I see as a core feature of these things. > > cheers! > mar77i > Agreed. Noone should be fooled to thinking that hobby programming, which free software and open source projects often are, is representative of a typical programming job. And because of the time pressure in programming contests, programming contests are closer (although not that much) to a normal programming job than hobby programming.
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