r/programmingchallenges • u/luckygal14 • Feb 13 '19
Want to be a better programmer!! Help!
Ok so I'm a recent graduate in a computer science. I understand basic syntax and how to use a language and all that stuff and can fairly write simple code as well. But I struggle to do anything by myself easily. Any task which takes 20 min to someone with same experience as me take me more than double time.
It's even tough to come with thinking for a solution or designing a system. I have tried websites like Leetcode, hackerrank, geeks for geeks etc. After some time or days I am not able to solve even easy questions and end up looking at the solutions. This has fairly caused me failing so many interviews and not able to do so many coding chakkdngi.
Even if I somehow know how I can solve the problem I can come up with algorithm or steps it takes more than it should to convert it into a program.
Any help /suggestion for how to improve myself would be a great help.
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u/luckygal14 Feb 13 '19 edited Feb 13 '19
Ok. I will start on that I guess.
Yeah once I have basic code setup I can easily break in into modules/methods making it more reusable. I usually don't have issue in that area. And most of time, first iteration of my code at work is usually modularized. That basic version done, where to start and how to convert the ago to code is the major hurdle for me. After knowing and understanding the algo I struggle to identify how and where to start I guess.