Yes, I know that constantly training is very helpful, but AFAYK, are there some books or articles or exercises that teach you how to think?
To be clear, I'm not talking about typing fast or coding fast. I'm referring to the art of thinking and producing the algorithm starting from the problem. Something that teach you where to point your attention, to focus on edge cases, or to reverse a problem from another point of view... things like these. Do you know, e.g., if best codejammers of previous years have read TAOCP? Or other typical suggested books? -- 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/3a54b40b-fdfe-4a90-a302-c5770c2f6e94%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
