I don't think people "switched", it's just Python users were outcompeted by c++/java users. Because on average c++/java competitors are more trained. Reason is - most of online judges favor Java and C++ and if you want to train and get better in competitive programming you eventually have to switch to get access to more training problems.
As for Python - in my experience it is absolutely OK for Google Codejam. I solved almost all problems from previous years in Python and there were literally 1 or 2 where I struggled with time limit. In both cases switching to PyPy solved the problem. I do recommend PyPy because of that. понедельник, 13 апреля 2015 г., 8:12:38 UTC-5 пользователь Mustafa Hussain написал: > Hi, > > I used Python to get through the qualification round and it is the langauge > I'm most comfortable with. However, I was looking at 2014 codejam results and > see people who used Python eventually switched to C++/Java/D as the > competition went along. Is this something I should consider? Round 1A is in > <5 days but if I start now I think I can get comfortable with the basics of > C++ (I have used it a bit in the past) till then. -- 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/085b51df-899a-46ed-a520-0d18f264b662%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
