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A guide to getting into competitive coding (for beginners)
By the_hyp0cr1t3, history, 4 years ago, In English

Here's a little something I wrote and put together from various sources. This guide contains numerous things I've learned and come across, both cp and general C++ related, through my (albeit short) competitive programming journey.

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Crazy detailed and formatted!

Thanks, it's brilliant :D

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Thanks a lot for this! Are you going to add more topics in the future?

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    Probably not, but if I find anything good I will be sure to update it.

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      Add a topic called "How to make Ashishgup meme Poster"

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      Its a request, If you can add some tutorials and problems on Binary Index Tree/Fenwick Tree and sparse table. It will be very helpful. Thanks!

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        I guess he has made this for beginners. But yeah for Fenwick tree you can go for striver video on youtube :)

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It's very helpful. Please add backtracking section. That would be much help.

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Amazing, thanks, a lot !!

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It's stupid to start an introductory guide with info on setting up IDE in some special way, learning shortcuts, or installing the cp helper. This is the opposite of important. You don't teach kids math by first showing them all the buttons on a calculator. It's enough to know how to compile and enter input (does the guide even explain this?).

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    coulden't agree more. still the top comment in every cp YouTuber's comment section is "How to set up ide.." as if it is the most important thing to get into cp. there is a reason in big companies they ask you to write code in Google docs. you won't even get an editor.

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    Thank you for your constructive criticism. I have updated it and added a (hopefully) more suitable introduction.

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