776eac No.4405
ITT we discuss Competitive Programming , is it useful ? have you tried to be part of team >> etc.
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776eac No.4430
There's not a whole lot of overlap between that sort of stuff and actual software development. I guess it's kind of a fun thing in its own right, and it definitely helps with job interviews, but I mostly just feel like I'm wasting my time when I could be building something useful.
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776eac No.4433
I'm classified for the regional competition of the acm. Didn't try the other ones.
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9eb7c9 No.5374
For real life it's more useful to just work on projects, but I believe learning to solve hard problems on comp. prog. sites really does give you some form of divine intellect.
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8a3873 No.5383
It's probably most useful if you're a researcher in algorithms or something.
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68d7cf No.5415
I've done some of this.
Anybody interested here's a good resource: https://contest.cs.cmu.edu/295/s19/
If you're American join the USACO Training program https://train.usaco.org/usacogate it's probably the best training to go from beginner -> strong competitor.
Topcoder and all that junk, I never bothered with. The only thing you should be doing on Topcoder is claiming bounty's for writing features (this is how Topcoder works, they post a feature they need, you write it, they give you the bounty). The actual online competition and whatever is meh, you should physically enroll in a competition if you're truly interested and build a team.
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4ac268 No.5420
>>4430
There's utility in experiencing different software requirements. I'm an experienced programmer that's spent much time writing business software. I've recently started learning about game programming and I've picked up many kinds of techniques and lessons that I can apply for my work in business software.
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