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Posted by vinhnx 2 days ago

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf](cses.fi)
67 points | 14 comments
dang 43 minutes ago|
Related. Others?

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xendo 1 hour ago||
This one is quite difficult, it sacrifices some readability for cleverness and conciseness. I find Algorithmic Thinking by Zingaro much more approachable but almost as dense.
Keegs 1 hour ago||
I’m a big fan of this book. It’s an equally great algorithms reference and way to prep for coding interviews. I haven’t had one in a while but doubt they’ve changed too much in the last half decade.
BeetleB 9 minutes ago|
I read this book to prepare for coding interviews. In retrospect, it really didn't help with that goal.

I did, nevertheless, learn quite a bit from it. Would recommend to everyone. It's well written.

dominotw 1 hour ago|
is leetcode still a thing in interviews. I personally want it to be. We need to start gatekeeping this profession hard ( this is a hard 180 from my stance for last 2 decades). Also regret contributing and being pro opensource.

Closedsource, credentialism and gatekeeping is my new stance.

moronicles 37 minutes ago||
Who exactly is it that will be doing the gatekeeping? I have a hard time imagining companies caring much about competitive coding scores, and I’ve certainly never heard of layoffs being decided based on LeetCode performance.
mellosouls 59 minutes ago|||
We can call it Coding Canutism.
bitwize 1 hour ago|||
Closed source will do squat unless you protect your binaries with some sort of secure enclave encryption scheme. AI can reverse engineer your binaries and deliver a copyright-laundered version in hours or days.
naagi 1 hour ago|||
shortsighted and a bit late anyway
simianwords 1 hour ago|||
is this an excellent LARP bait or someone with these sincere views?
pbkompasz 1 hour ago||
Why not both?
robotpepi 1 hour ago||
what?
lencastre 1 hour ago||
is your favourite colour?
Johnyjohnson123 8 minutes ago||
Yellow, yours ?