Letter to the codechef admin.

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Yes, video lectures are easy and fast to understand, but who will do the video lecture editorial,
Video lectures for some algos like KMP,Tries are fine,
I dont think its possible to have a video lecture for every question, and to store them all in their server,and Ediotrialist may not have time for it and some problems editorials have lots of links and pdf pappers to be studied .

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That would be a great idea

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It won’t hurt; however, I don’t see reasons to think such thing is really needed.

First of all, usually these videoeditorials aren’t saving your time :slight_smile: You need only a few minutes to read short editorial, and much more time to watch a video where same things are described in detail. By working on editorial by yourself for same time you should be able to reach same results.

And if it looks that you aren’t - there are several possible reasons. It is possible that editorial is bad. From my experience, such happens quite often, but still most of editorials at CodeChef have a pretty good quality. It is possible that you are not capable to learning for some reason. That’s bad news for you. People all over the world are fine with learning from editorials - users at sites like CodeForces are fine with learning from editorials, why can’t you?.. And the last possibility is - you are simply lazy. Lazy to work on it and learn new things. In this case videoeditorial wouldn’t help you much. You’ll feel like you learned and understood things better, because they were explained detailed, but in a lot of cases it will be a wrong impression.

Rarely there are things which can be presented in video but can’t be presented in text editorial (like some dynamic illustrations). Also there are some people who pathologically can’t grasp one form of representing of information (like text) but are doing much better with some other form (sound, video, illustrations). But in most cases it doesn’t make much difference.

These video need somebody to perform that videoeditorial, they also need storage, you need good connection to watch them… Once again, there is nothing really bad in your idea…

If you find editorials at other sites good, while CodeChef editorials are constantly bad for you - maybe it should be a feedback for CodeChef editorialist - they should change something in the way they are presenting ideas and solutions. I don’t face such troubles, but if there are lots of people saying same thing - it should be a sign for CodeChef team. If all text editorials are hard for you - I have bad news for you; you should start working of improving your learning skills, because if you aren’t capable on learning - other people have huge advantage over you, and you’ll face hard times qiute often.

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Hey All, Thanks for the kind suggestion. We will love to put up video editorials. However, at present we are running a rather packed schedule, which makes it pretty tough to squeeze in such a huge task. If anyone of you are interested in taking up the task, you are most welcome. You can write into us at: help@codechef.com and we can take it further.

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We face technical glitches often, video tutorials would just add to it. Isn’t it better that u see the tag,research about it, try the problem again,if done then good and well,else read the tutorial.If u stil dont get it then go for video tutorials(prefer it the least). Dont go easy on yourself,u never know what u r capable of… :slight_smile:

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@admin I too believe that this is a nice suggestion. I feel that as codechef has expanded to a great extent in recent years and it will be great to have editorials for the future contests in form of videos. This will really facilitate learning of large number of users and the ultimate aim of codechef. Hope this comes up soon.

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thanks to @va1ts7_100 to raising again this point

hope
experts will look into matter soon

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here i am upvoting for you which will helpful to you upvote in future please right of vote properly to help to recognize some genuine issue which is faced by users…hope you will get enough karma…

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@rclsdav2017… you wlcm… :slight_smile:

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hhhh… @rcsldav2017, this is what karma means on codechef…!! thanks for the information :slight_smile:

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yeah… well said … :slight_smile:

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Don’t worry you will earn Karma points too :smiley:

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@shubham99 how we will get??

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beside commenting on answer please vote for it…
anyway thanks

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I meant this for @sanstroke.

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we are not saying remove written editorial …

we are saying please link video tutorial link too…

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don’t be worried @dragonemperor…!! we are asking for both type of editorials…!! textual as well as video… :slight_smile:

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thanks for your response…

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hope you will find some way for this in future @admin…!

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@lebron… first of all we all are not lazy…!! and second , there are various kinds of people on earth, some understand directly by reading the books, some understand after the lesson is taught in class(kind of video lecture in real life). May be u are of first caeogery , but it dosen’t mean that we peoples are slow or we have less mind in our head…!! we find reading things very boring and sometimes abmiguous…!! hope u get it.