Re: [gci-discuss] Abandoned task

2018-10-29 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
> On Oct 29, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Joshua Nwankwo wrote: > > Abandoning a task is not the best option, never give up, I'm actually > thinking that the organizers are giving us task that seems bigger than us so > that we can start getting use to hard task and also increase our problem >

Re: [gci-discuss] Google Code-in 2018 is now open for students!

2018-10-25 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 9:11 PM, monica canaza wrote: > > Hello everyone, I am a student of Computer Science at the University in > Bolivia, I am currently volunteering to teach C ++ competitive programming to > boys and girls from 13 to 17 years old, I have had very good results with all > of

Re: [gci-discuss] Regardimg selecting an organisation

2019-11-03 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
Shivay, There is a reason “Code” is in the name of the program! :) I suggest using this time to go through some basic programming tutorials. An hour of code on code.org is a good starting place, or Khan Academy is filled with classes. Beyond that, most organizations will

Re: [gci-discuss] programming languages

2019-11-10 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
> On Nov 10, 2019, at 12:45 AM, Awesome Kid wrote: > > hi! I would like to know whether it is advisable to know all the programming > languages that an organization works with… It is absolutely not necessary. Most orgs have tasks that wide variety of languages and technologies. I would

Re: [gci-discuss] Tasks

2019-12-09 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
Not in general, but winners for BRL-CAD (and other orgs) have typically completed between 20-60 tasks. That’s about a task a day or every other day. That said, the count itself isn’t as important as is the quality of your work and your interactions with the community. The best invariably

Re: [gci-discuss] stack overflow

2019-12-11 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
 This very much depends on the nature of the task. I might be disappointed if stackoverflow were used on a task asking you to learn and explore, particularly if the task has questions to see if you really did explore and learn. You’re only cheating yourself and it would likely hurt you on

Re: [gci-discuss] stack overflow

2019-12-11 Thread 'Christopher Sean Morrison' via Google Code-in Discuss
This very much depends on the nature of the task. I might be disappointed if stackoverflow were used on a task asking you to learn and explore, particularly if the task has questions to see if you really did explore and learn. You’re only cheating yourself and it would likely hurt you on