Ask HN: I'm good at coding but bad at competitive coding
I'm a computer science student and I consider myself good at coding, that is, designing the structure of programs, utilizing abstraction, managing states, and other OOP concepts(that's what I'm familiar with, I've started looking into functional programming). But I'm not very good at competitive coding. Some of my classmate are good at competitive coding but the 'software' they create is just horrible (nested if/for/while blocks which are 5 levels deep, overly complicated code, stuff which can be simplified by just throwing in some POJO's). Is the fact that I'm bad at competitive coding a symptom of something serious (weak foundations in algorithms/data structures)? Am I missing out on something? 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a computer science student and I consider myself good at coding, that is, designing the structure of programs, utilizing abstraction, managing states, and other OOP concepts(that's what I'm familiar with, I've started looking into functional programming). But I'm not very good at competitive coding. Some of my classmate are good at competitive coding but the 'software' they create is just horrible (nested if/for/while blocks which are 5 levels deep, overly complicated code, stuff which can be simplified by just throwing in some POJO's). Is the fact that I'm bad at competitive coding a symptom of something serious (weak foundations in algorithms/data structures)? Am I missing out on something?
I'm a computer science student and I consider myself good at coding, that is, designing the structure of programs, utilizing abstraction, managing states, and other OOP concepts(that's what I'm familiar with, I've started looking into functional programming). But I'm not very good at competitive coding. Some of my classmate are good at competitive coding but the 'software' they create is just horrible (nested if/for/while blocks which are 5 levels deep, overly complicated code, stuff which can be simplified by just throwing in some POJO's). Is the fact that I'm bad at competitive coding a symptom of something serious (weak foundations in algorithms/data structures)? Am I missing out on something? 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a computer science student and I consider myself good at coding, that is, designing the structure of programs, utilizing abstraction, managing states, and other OOP concepts(that's what I'm familiar with, I've started looking into functional programming). But I'm not very good at competitive coding. Some of my classmate are good at competitive coding but the 'software' they create is just horrible (nested if/for/while blocks which are 5 levels deep, overly complicated code, stuff which can be simplified by just throwing in some POJO's). Is the fact that I'm bad at competitive coding a symptom of something serious (weak foundations in algorithms/data structures)? Am I missing out on something?
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