On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:15:50 AM UTC+8, Christian Wen wrote: > Well, I'm not an extremely great coder, and many of these links are also > helpful and I'll probably look them up to see if I can also study for Round > 1. I looked at some of the past ones and they're actually quite hard > compared to the Qualification round. > > I'm also going to try looking up bit manipulation because currently it sounds > a bit complicated. > > Okay, about my school of thought. I feel its okay to look at other people's > code but, you should try on your own first. Currently I'm enrolled in a > coursera course on Discrete Optimization (melbourne) and they have videos on > programming techniques and then you have to do the exercises. > > This is how I see looking at code. It should be for learning concepts that > you might not understand. That's another problem, sometimes just looking at > someone's code doesn't exactly help. The best way would be if you find a > solution online, or and explanation on a solution to a problem. So after you > looked at a solution or a piece of code, you should be able to understand it > and code it yourself. Try coding it yourself to make sure you understand it. >
Yes, the links are really helpful. Even if the ones mentioned by edston are targeted for newbies, I still intend to go through them. And I agree about your point when looking at code and I too prefer if there was an explanation to speed up the process of understanding the solution. But for sure I will try to do this as a last resort only. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/928e2f81-830a-4ca5-bd2a-3227f3995daa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
