CodeChef Advantages:
- Codechef organises a 10 day long contest (good for beginners), Codeforces doesn’t.
- I personally feel codechef is better for beginners to practise as the have a lot of problems sorted according to difficulty level.
- And also as @bansal1232 said codechef organises one of the largest competition of the world ACM_ICPC.
- Except for FEB and DEC challenges, editorials are provided punctually.
Codeforces Advantages:
- Most importantly, they provide editorials for their questions just after the contest
- Also they update the rating really fast (Took part in #406 yesterday and the ratings got updated within hours) whereas codechef takes days now.
- I don’t remember codeforces removing their questions during live contests ( @admin please, you take days to solve two problems just to know that they have been removed. )
Both the codeforces and codechef community are supportive, you get answers within minutes
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Codechef is better than codeforces because it’s discussion forum is awesome and host a contest is easy. I think codechef is best place for learning and practicing programming.
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my motto is ioi so what is better for me?
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None of the platform are better. It depends on your level. Codechef is good for beginner or intermediate(like me) coders. Codechef lets you learn new things. But codeforces is kind of advanced. They prefer practicing than learning. But my opinion is continue on both site. They both are great
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Can someone explain me how zco36079 approached to the solution for the problem FENCE in INOI 2017? The solution is CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone .
I suggest Start with SPOJ,it is the best collection of classical and challenging problems.At least solve about to 100-200 problems to be a good coder.
Once you are good and confident with these problems you should now move to CODECHEF or TOPCODER and CODEFORCES.
Solve challenges including long ,short and lunchtime of codechef. Solve practice questions of it is possible.
I THINK THIS IS THE PERFECT WAY TO BE A PERFECT…
Of course Codechef is the best among two.As Codechef is a indian brand we should always respect indian brands and more codechef gives you opportunity to learn more and more things .
Codechef gives you goodies for your performance enhancement.
So,in my views Codechef is best.
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I think codeforces is better because contests because it has large number of contests as compared to Codechef and rating system is so quick
The question is kind of tooo broad. It depends on you the most. Whats your preference? What ideology you prefer? What type of contests you are inclined to? What things you look for in editorials?
Spend some time at places and figure out for yourself that which site suits you the best.
And lol, I think that codechef’s discussions are quite quick. We all try to help whenever we can.
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The editorial point is invalid. Except Feb and Dec editorials, the editorials are furnished punctually. We cannot use 2 months unexpected behaviour to conclude overall.
@vijju123 September Challenge also. In last one year, there may 5-6 such contests.
@dushsingh1995, I think things will be different this time
Why would you say ‘Unfair competition because of two divisions’? I don’t get why it would stand as a ‘disadvantage’,considering you have a greater chance of competing with programmers of your level in a site like Codeforces than at Codechef.
I agree that doesn’t matter much. What I meant here was when there are no Div 1 round on codeforces for long time, Div 1 people make fake account and participate. This used to happen frequently but now codeforces have more frequent Div1 rounds.
Is this the right place to ask so? Try making a new question.
SPOJ is spoiled after making problem setting open. It is not good for practice anymore.
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