This week’s question is sometimes controversial:

Do competitive programmers make good engineers? (answer)

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If only we knew…

Which LeetCode questions will Google ask? (answer)

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Thinking about this terminology could avoid a lot of confusion in related questions.

What’s the difference between LeetCode and competitive programming? (answer)

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Some people think streaking is too hard:

Why is it so difficult to maintain a LeetCode streak? (answer)

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A question about tools:

What is the best IDE for practicing interview questions? (answer)

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This question may not be specifically about programming, but there are common elements to problem-solving techniques in different areas.

I easily forget the problem process when I approach the problem the following day. What can I do to resolve this? (answer)

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Three questions in one.

How can I improve in competitive programming? Should I learn topics and solve problems on each topic? What are the topics a good competitive programmer should know? (answer)

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Other than practice? Actually, it’s just practice.

How do you ace a LeetCode contest? (answer)

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Algorithms and Data Structures for the math-oriented programmer.

Math is so much fun, but Data Structures and Algorithms are boring. Is this possible? What should I do? (answer)

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A better question is how many do you need.

How many problems are there on LeetCode? (answer)

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