Greetings everyone!
I was inspired by this blog post of how young orzdevinwang became LGM. I really would like to know the story of how he became LGM at a young age. Did he undergo some special training or was it his parent who helped him become LGM. I also want to ask experienced coders; Did they get help from their parents, if yes, how?!.
I am asking these questions, because I am a father myself, and I would like to give my kids an opportunity to pick up competitive programming hoppy. (I am well aware that CP might not fit everyone! but I want to give my kids a chance and if they like it, I want to offer my help, and if they don't; they can pick up whatever they like, and I will still help them in anyway they go).
As you can see from my ratings, I am below average coder. If my kids like CP, I can teach them up to a certain level, and beyond that I do not know what to do or how to help them.
Please if you have any advice for me, please share with us!
Thanks for your time.
Introduce them to math contests, the knowledge is easily transferable.
I'd say the challenge here is "everyday". Everyday finding games/riddles/puzzles/problems suitable for their age. Everyday achieving balance between easily solvable problems (maybe old ones) that can show that you not worthless but can bore, and hard problems that can frustrate and turn you off. Everyday helping them to deal with anxiety to give up on hard problem and hinting 'em slightly to spark the ideas. Everyday arrange their surrounding in way so they would have interesting (from their perspective) things to do and they wouldn't get captured by passive content consumption on tv, youtube, appstores.