A Code Daily

𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗣 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 ❤️ We often have a lot of doubts when we start something new, often these doubts are enough to hold us back. I had a lot of such doubts when I started A Code Daily on 1st Jan, 2023; but I wanted to give it a honest shot and build a free community which aims to improve the competitive coding culture in India specially for tier-3 folks. I still remember having just 1 person on the server (me); who had no knowledge about discord and it's potential, but the community grew so much that now we are at 13.5k+ (with just word of mouth). It wasn't an easy journey and most of the credits goes to the contributors most of whom joined the community as CP beginners but started enjoying the culture, got the required support by more experienced folks (initially just me but a lot many now), thereby reaching expert on CF in a few months, and then helped others invigorating this amazing helping culture! It has been a great experience and the impact it has on the countless lives feels personal (from up-levelling on various CP platforms to cracking their dream organisations), I hope this growth continues and that we are able to help even more souls. Let me know if there's anything more which can be improved! 🙂 link: https://lnkd.in/dy9-fUge

Have recently been tagged in several posts and have received numerous messages on all social asking to post about the rampant cheating in CP and OAs. I was a bit hesitant at first as I am not actively participating (hence I wasn't totally aware about the ground reality), and I firmly believed that cheating would only impact non serious coders as harder problems are mostly never leaked, however this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I observed the contest on Codeforces yesterday and was surprised at the scale at which cheating groups operate. The solution from A-D were leaked on Telegram and even on Youtube (someone livestreamed most likely for some petty views). D problem being leaked implies people who might've reached experts would be negatively affected (as thousands were able to do D), and I consider experts and above to be serious coders. The same goes for OAs, dedicated groups for each org provide the required support for solving OAs on your behalf. This has worked well, as the OAs have become significantly harder than the actual interviews itself. In CP these people have improved their methodologies and they now send you solutions of other coders, from the CF hack rooms, which helps them avoid plags and costs plags to honest coders! Before blaming all these group owners, streamers and "help providers", we need to blame ourselves I believe! Over the past few years people have started correlating a good CP ratings to good placements, however in reality both are just a result of having good skills. Soon CP ratings became a filter for getting referrals (I too used it as a filter for referrals at Microsoft because of it being convenient). CP is a sport and helps you improve your skills but viewing the ratings as the path to success has been the biggest reason for the current situation. It affects almost every serious candidate and demoralises them into thinking low about themselves because of no growth (cheaters take all the positive deltas without any effort). Platforms are now thinking of banning our beloved nation, says volumes about the kind of impact we had on CP as a nation. Solution? Sadly, there's none! People would keep doing these things for bragging about their ratings and/or clearing exams. It becomes a responsibility of each one of us to understand the pros/cons of our acts and propagate the morality to our juniors (hence this post). It's far better being a honest pupil than being a cheater expert, having more wisdom and less regrets. That all being said, don't be demotivated, ratings really don't matter much. If you are highly concerned about the ratings then try becoming better and faster than people who actually leak the solutions! Once you do that you'll surpass these people and the thousands of coders who rely on such solutions. It's not that there's no hope, it's just that it's harder now! Keep coding, you'll reach there soon.

Hi folks, We at A Code Daily have updated the ACD Ladders! ACD Ladders till now has done far better than we ever anticipated and has more than half a million footprint spanning across 80+ countries! The ladders now includes problems from important concepts of CP and constructive algorithms. The recent trend of increasing constructive nature of problems being asked requires considerable practice of similar topics which is hard to be accomplished using only good old problems thereby this update should help you all become better at CP! You could read more about the algorithm used for the ACD Laddders here: https://lnkd.in/gi5ZXUeb , we processed data of more than 60k active users this time to come up with the recent problemset. I often see people on LinkedIn posting about achievements in CP after utilising solutions from Telegram, this is true for even popular accounts having following of more than 50k, I hope these efforts from ACD team help you become better coders in reality and you aren't required to pretend being one by using paid solutions! CP is a game don't ruin it! Hope this update helps, let me know your experience with ACD Ladders till now! #CP #codeforces #ladders #problemset #practice #cheating

Incase you missed! Here's livestream by Pranav Mehta and Stefan Dascalescu, on competitive programming! About Stefan: Speaker at IOI 2023, global top ~500 (ATH) at Codeforces. 10+ years of experience in CP and coaching! https://lnkd.in/g-Y76E6e

We are a community of 11k+ now! 🎉 Word of mouth would always outweigh any sort of PR marketing. PS: having all palindromes is a coincidence! link to join: https://lnkd.in/dy9-fUge

Solving X number of problems on LeetCode doesn't necessarily mean that you are good at DSA! I've solved ~2k problems on LC and probably 3k+ problems (all platforms combined), still someone who has solved a fraction of these problems might be a better problem solver than me if he has covered the necessary topics with the required understanding. A few pointers: 1. focus on understanding the fundamentals of the problem rather than increasing your problem count just to mention on the resume. 2. Contest rankings would always speak more about your problem solving skills, so try to focus on them! 3. Don't just solve easy problems for increasing the count. Go after medium-hard problems to test your knowledge. Hope this short post was helpful!

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞❓ Recently 3-4 peeps asked me how I used A Code Daily Discord Server such that I helped me in growing. So I’ll answer from the very start so that you can get the answer to all your queries in this single post. 1. Be active in the server’s general chat first. You’ll find people discussing awesome problems and more awesome solutions. There are peeps ranging from Unrated to IGM chatting there. 2. Use the Hard-75 Bot to practice problems as that bot got the best problem filtered out for every rating. If that’s completed, seek the problems from ACD ladders (Going to be updated soon). 3. If stuck on any problem or you have the passion to help others, explore the dsa-cp-doubts channel in the server. My 80% growth’s credit goes that channel itself. 4. Participate in post contest discussion after every contest. There will be people discussing already on every problems and you can upsolve seeing the ideas or explanation in the chat. Above mentioned points are something which I myself followed and is following till date in the server. They helped in becoming someone who even gave once Master-level performance in contest from someone who barely gave pupil level performance. If you have any further doubt, you can write it down in the comment section or ping me directly on Discord. Link for Discord Server 🤖: https://lnkd.in/g3byr6df #cp #competitiveprogramming #codeforces #acd

In May 2023, I got my first offer from an ed-tech. The offer was just to register with them, even teaching was optional; needless to say the compensation was great and would've been a great source of passive income! Since then I can't recall a single month wherein I didn't have a collaboration offer or a ed-tech offer. I've rejected all of them and would probably be doing the same going forward. As the goal is not to earn from it, but to provide the best education/resources even to the ones who are most underprivileged! Have been giving away free resources without any monetisation for more than 1 year now. The opportunity cost is obviously more than what I earn from my day job. But the satisfaction I get on interacting with people in my community or when I open my LinkedIn notifications is immense. Every time I get a DM that someone got placed and the resources we created were of great use of for the placement, that feeling just can't be articulated- I understand how placement doesn't affect only a single person but the entire family. I just wish that I am able to contribute more with time. We (A Code Daily) have grown to ~11k coders, and I believe that with the time the impact is only gonna increase. Thanks to all the people who have been a crucial support in this journey. 👏 link to join the community (where everything is free and would always be!): https://lnkd.in/dy9-fUge

I didn't do much CP in college, but after doing enough LeetCode; reaching expert on CF was a mere cakewalk. Took me a few more months to reach CM and I am pretty sure had I been consistent with CF I would've reached Master in another 6-8 months! Mostly people would complain about how hard it is to move from LC to CF. Well it isn't! If you've actually covered all the topics in detail you pretty much don't need a lot to reach at least 1900 on CF (which rn is ~top 300 across India); the only difference I found in problems was the adhoc nature of CF problems and obviously their inclination towards maths. LC isn't bad it's just that most people still copy paste solutions without even understanding how the algorithm actually works, and how it can be tweaked for other use-cases. This puts them in a situation where the only thing they can flaunt is number of problems solved! #leetcode #cp #codeforces #dsa #coding

A dream to have a community where money never becomes a barrier for education is now serving 10k members ❤️. I had never thought this day would ever come, started with less than 10 members in 2023, and within a year we've surpassed the 10k mark! I've taught 100s of hours here for free, 1000s of doubts have been resolved by the community! It gives me immense pleasure on seeing my LinkedIn flooding with notifications of people emphasising the impact A Code Daily has had on their success! We never did any sort of paid promotions or stuff, and always kept everything free! It was the word of mouth which made the biggest and most active CP community in India! We'll keep growing and keep adding more stuff to help freshers achieve the goals they always wished for and make sure that no one falls behind just because they aren't financially privileged! On the server people from CM to IGM are teaching for free (by making private groups)! The growth I've seen of active people on the server can't even be articulated. Proud to have started this initiative and am grateful to every single one of you who has contributed to its success! Thanks a lot everyone! ❤️ join here: https://lnkd.in/dy9-fUge #leetcode #dsa #cp #codeforces #code #placements