Hi guys,

Coding for several years, all I can say is that Competitive Programming is so great that I love it so much, despite my innumerable failures and the enormous amount of time it takes. I have always happily enjoyed it until I read this.

I hate to say this but I have to admit that what other people say about us (or at least me), competitive programmers, is true: We are not so great as we are supposed to be. As a Computer Science student, I feel it myself too. When it comes to learning a new programming language, it has always been so easy for me, but then I recognise that I can only learn as much as the previous one, to compete here on Codeforces, but not anywhere else. I could not build anything useful like an OS or an IDE when I was using Pascal and neither can I now when I have already know C/C++, Python, Matlab, Java... I feel so disappointed about myself.

I also want to build something useful just like when Linus Torvald built his first Linux Kernel. That kernel was written in C, and I know C but I am still unable to do anything similar. I hate this. I hate the feeling of being inferior to those people who called themselves professional programmers. I hate that but how and what can I do?

I hope that some of you have similar feelings like me, and I would like to know your thinking and experience, about how we can go further, go beyond what we currently are.

Thank you for your time and consideration. HAPPY CODING