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Archives for September 2019

Quora Experiment 2019: Week 13

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 25 0

Quora Experiment 2019

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 one: I see a lot of trolling and easily Google-able questions on Quora. Should we have stricter policies like Stack Exchange does? (answer)

Why is this post so short? Find the answer, and links to a blog table of contents, at A Summer 2019 Experiment.

Quora Experiment 2019: Week 12

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 18 0

Quora Experiment 2019

One way to categorize competitive programming contests is by duration. A short contest wraps up after a few hours. In a long contest you get several days to think about and submit solutions. With that in mind, Why would you not participate in a long contest? (answer)

Why is this post so short? Find the answer, and links to a blog table of contents, at A Summer 2019 Experiment.

Quora Experiment 2019: Week 11

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 11 0

Quora Experiment 2019

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 A Summer 2019 Experiment.

Quora Experiment 2019: Week 10

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 4 0

Quora Experiment 2019

Here are a few Quora questions for this week that approach the issue of competitive/interview programming vs. real-world programming from different angles:

  • How would a competitive coder compare to a top-level programmer on real work projects? (answer)
  • Do you coders think that coding test platforms give accurate results on your abilities? (answer)
  • And a fun one that’s getting some clicks: How good is Mark Zuckerberg with competitive programming? (answer)

Why is this post so short? Find the answer, and links to a blog table of contents, at A Summer 2019 Experiment.

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