Difficulties in Upsolving Contest Questions after any contest (Specially ACM ICPC)

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Hey there, I have been doing CP for about 4-5 months now. Till now I have been solving questions that require almost direct algorithms and other approaches. However, there are many times when I am not able to understand the editorials of the problems.

Also I find it difficult to read and understand the working of other peoples code. I wanted to know if there are any techniques or suggestions as to how to read and get other peoples code effectively?

Specially the problems in ACM ICPC.

edit:: 3 days and still no answers

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Try solving problems from codeforces . The type of problems in codeforces is very much different from codechef . And it requires a lot of problem solving skills and not just algorithmic knowledge to solve codeforces problems .

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It’s really tough to especially solve on Codeforces. The editorials are so bad and I don’t understand anything, and I never fully understand how others codes work :confused:

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Find people who write readable code ( appropriate variable names etc ) before/after the contests on codeforces . Editorials on codeforces are the best (not too detailed , but not too short either ) , look for comments on the blog too , people share their solutions there . If you aren’t understanding the editorial that probably means the problem is little too tough for you , leave it for now and come back later .

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Ya, same with me. I understand editorials and other people’s code rarely. So what I do is that I add those questions to my todo list and do other questions and later come back that question. But you should not forget about your todo list after adding questions.

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Start solving A2oJ ladders, from DIV 2 A and learn as you go up, DIV 2 A questions are usually easy. Whenever you get stuck check editorial and solution of other coders. You’ll progress but be stubborn. And use C++ to code, probably you are using C++ I guess.

A2oj ladders

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Follow this Guy :
Codeforces : biltharesatyendra - Codeforces
Codechef : biltharesatyendra | CodeChef User Profile for Satyendra Kumar Bilthare | CodeChef

If you’re on codeforces and attempting some problem there is a good chance that Bilthare did it ,also his solutions are clean and very easy to understand.

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Please upvote the question if you need the same help as well!

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since you mention following people with readable code…can you name a few?