Red-Green-Code

Coding interviews can seem ridiculous, but would company leaders trust such an important part of their business to a process that didn’t work? Or to Quorify that question: Do you think programming interviews these days are a joke? (answer) Why is this post so short? Find the answer, and links to a blog table of […]

Stack Exchange and Quora operate according to different Q&A philosophies. One difference is that Stack Exchange sites separate questions about a site (meta questions) from questions about the topic covered by that site. On Quora, the subject of “Quora the Q&A site” is just another topic. In that topic, you can find questions like this […]

This week, two Quora questions about books: Does reading the book Competitive Programming 3 really help with competitive programming? (answer) Is it worth reading the book “How to Solve It” by G. Polya for competitive coders? (answer) Why is this post so short? Find the answer, and links to a blog table of contents, at […]

It’s popular on Quora to ask questions comparing competitive programming (or competitive programmers) with real-world programming (or real-world programmers). For example: If you only know competitive programming, could you fake being a real programmer? But how would someone “only know competitive programming”? At a minimum, competitive programmers have textbook computer science knowledge, just like other […]

I worked on a math project for the first half of this year, so I was thinking about the issues posed by this Quora question: Do I need to be good in math to do competitive programming? (answer) Programming competitions are not math competitions, so they don’t usually focus on tricky math problems, and they […]