*"Practicing for this competitions will improve your performance in any task, since is a brain stimulating activity"* * * When it comes to adult's brains, there's lack of scientific evidence that you will get better at other activities other than those you've been practicing. We all know that practice makes perfect. However, there's few or no evidence that honing your skills doing some mental stimulating task will actually make you better at other kinds of tasks (for an adult, of course). Furthermore, there was this huge scientific experiment published on Nature (20th April) showing exactly the opposite. Brain training doesn't seem to work! Check this out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/results/braintestbritain/1_results_summary.html <http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/results/braintestbritain/1_results_summary.html> http://web.me.com/adrian.owen/site/Home.html 2010/5/23 Carlos Guia <[email protected]> > First of all, do your Masters in whatever field is going to be relevant to > your life or work, not based on this competitions. Practicing for this > competitions will improve your performance in any task, since is a brain > stimulating activity, but your career will be richer if you choose your > Master based on your expectations on the job field. > > To improve in competitions go to: > www.topcoder.com/tc (3 monthly competitions, 1 annual, great tutorials in > the educational content) > codeforces.net (site in beta stage, has some nice online competitions) > www.spoj.pl (online judge, good for practicing) > uva.onlinejudge.org (classical online judge, has some long online contests > ACM-ICPC style) > > Carlos Guía > > > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Dinesh Weerapurage <[email protected]>wrote: > >> That's new to me ! Thanks for sharing. >> >> Dinesh. >> >> >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Qasim Zeeshan <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> The most important thing is to visit the forums of these sites. Read the >>> code of fast and accurate solutions. This is how I am learning. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Amit Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> you can check topcoder, imagine cup, code jam practice, codechef. You >>>> can find lots of problems to practice on there. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Regards >>>> Amit Agarwal >>>> www.amitagrwal.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dinesh Weerapurage <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> This is the first time time I ever participate in a programming >>>>> competition. Although I got through qualification round my performance in >>>>> round 1 was not satisfactory. I would think, without proper studying >>>>> and practicing good performance can not be achieved. I would like to study >>>>> and practice for future competitions. I'm wondering what others do for >>>>> study >>>>> and practice. Given that I have good math and computer science background >>>>> (I have BS in Computer Science and I'm reading for my Masters in CS), Are >>>>> there good books,tutorials for study ? I like to work on more problems >>>>> which >>>>> are like codejam problems. Any pointers for more problems ? I would >>>>> appreciate if you can share your experiences in studying and practicing. >>>>> >>>>> Good luck everyone for future rounds ! >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Dinesh. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "google-codejam" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "google-codejam" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Qasim Zeeshan >>> PUCIT, PU Alumni '04 >>> Software Engineer >>> Confiz Solutions >>> http://qzeeshan.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "google-codejam" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "google-codejam" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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