Re: Is paying for LeetCode worth it?
So here's the thing. Practice coding sites are good for the newest of new programmers. Once you're writing programs that are over say 1000 lines, or really even just a couple hundred, none of the practice sites are going to give you anything much. Even things like Advent of Code stop being really beneficial in any way unless you're just looking for brainteasers. Fun? Maybe, if you're the right sort of person. But going to teach you to actually build larger software projects? Not really. This is especially true if it's the sort of site where they check your answer, since being able to check your answer really just means practicing algorithms, and algorithms are only like 20% of programming at most.
There are lots of universities and such that put their lectures up on Youtube, free software engineering textbooks, and so on. I don't know what's recent. But the coding practice problems site crowd is either people just getting started, a weird sort of competitive zealot personality type that's hard to describe, or people who think they're way better than they actually are. Yes, there's a minority of people who just do it for fun, and I don't disdain them for doing it. But be incredibly skeptical of this trend that those sorts of things teach much worth knowing.
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