Nice week

This week was very informative and a good one as I learned a lot .
I participated in TCS's Codevita contest with my friend and we solved 2/7 questions . We should have solved at least 4 but somehow due to lack of coordination among us(this was our first ever team contest) we could solve just 2 .

I solved 2 question in Codeforces weekly contest and now I am again a 'specialist' after a long time .(I know I am not :P )

I successfully solved Div 2 250 for 212 points in this week's SRM on TC and now my rating is 480 in 10 contests . I know its not good but still better than before .

This week I learned the implementation of Longest Common Subsequence and Longest Increasing Subsequence .

Thanks for reading and keep coding ! 

Couldn't stop to participate

Earlier I was thinking that I will not participate in any kind of competitions but I couldn't stop myself ....

Participated in the SRM 624 and guess what ? I submitted 2 div2 problems successfully a 250 & a 500 finishing at 8th place in my room 'my current best' previous best was 10th . Got 246 odd pts from the 250 pointer I think this is my best till now. 

The problems were very easy in this SRM that's why I could solve them(This is the truth).

I participated in Codechef's June Long contest also and solved 2 problems for the first time in a long contest.

So, definitely I am improving day by day I should not give practicing because practice is the key to get better at almost everything and coding competitions are no different. 

Learning the hard way

So, now I've decided to push my coding skills to a new level. This week I was solving Div 2 250 problems on Topcoder . On an average I am doing 3-4 problems on it spending around 30-60 minutes on each of them trying to understand them and coding them.If I get stuck at something I am reading the editorials of the problem to further check my solution or to get new ways to do the same problem.This not only improves my coding skills but gives me a different approach to do the same question also.As of now I am not participating in SRMs and Codeforces contests  because I want to first sharpen my axe for a good amount of time and then cut the tree smoothly rather than cutting the tree with the blunt axe .

I am learning C++ these days.Its good to go with C++ when you have C basics with you.

Also this week I participated in Codechef's short contest and  managed to solve 2 problems . This was the first time when I could solve more than 1 problem on their contests and now I am ranked 1226 worldwide and 721 in my country in short contests.

I am certainly improving day by day . I can see that improvement as now I can think much more faster on how to solve a particular solution and I will continue to practice more and more..