Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

Ive been doing codeforces, Rosalind, codewars and leetcode casually in my spare time to detox from heavy daily agent use.

Ive been relearning a ton that either over-reliance on llms caused me to forget, or just lost due to time.

Its been extremely fun. I really missed the feeling of thinking really hard and arriving at a solution.

I hope we dont lose this desire as a species.

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.

Related. Others?

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605395 - July 2018 (14 comments)

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952222 - April 2018 (121 comments)

A Competitive Programmer's Handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115826 - April 2017 (157 comments)

Competitive programmers handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762408 - March 2017 (2 comments)

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.

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.