I think emotionally being in the middle (definitely not novice, but too far from top performers) is very difficult. On one hand you know how much you've put in already, on the other way you see light years you need to put in to get even a little closer to top performers. Probably even worse then being novice, because you better realize how far you are.
In my case this is more like a hobby - I am not programmer in professional life, but I still don't participate in competitions without desire to win :). Last week was bad for my programming skills - I participated in first SRM at Topcoder. Being first time, I was assigned to 2nd Division and problems were easy. So I solved all them first in my room. Happily looking at myself at the first place - I waited for another 40 minutes for everybody to finish. Then challenge phase came - everybody checked my solutions, nobody challenged. Then system tests - and all my problems fail, and I fall down to last place. After careful research - in first problem I forgot class wrapper, in second problem there was some bug with indentation - after I "retabbed" every line it started working properly - python stuff, in third problem one testcase took more then 2 seconds - again python stuff. :) So I think failing Round 1A in Codejam was proper result for such week. Hope to do better this time. Good luck to you and thanks for support. I know this forum is not psychological hotline, so sorry for bringing up this silly topic. -- 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/818087bc-d4dc-49ff-8845-0513d0a335a8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
