Hi, just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos and find them helpful, especially your recent interviews and videos on mindset. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hey Riya, I really enjoy your contents! Thank you so much for making these! I'm wondering what steps I should take to pass bronze? I am good at programming in c++ and I have solved around 30 USACO problems but I am still unable to solve a lot of the normal and hard difficulty questions and I would have to look at the solution for them. Do you have any suggestions?
This depends, what’s the main issue you run into with the harder Bronze problems? Is it coming up with the algorithm, implementing the algorithm, or debugging it? Also, how long does it take you to solve the easier Bronze problems that you solve?
@@riya_arora Hey Riya, I think I tend to overcomplicate things for harder problems sort of like overfitting the sample case and then it will fail for the other test cases. I think I can solve easy usaco problems pretty fast and normal ones around 1 hour
@@zappist751 One suggestion I have for this is to create 6-7 test cases of size N=6 or N=7, and make sure your algorithm works on all of those test cases before beginning to code. That small cost of time in the beginning can and will save you a lot of time later on when you don't get stuck with a wrong code where you aren't sure if the algorithm is wrong or if there is just a bug. This seems like a simple thing, and the beauty of it is that it is! That means you can start it right away. Let me know how this goes. You can also increase the number of test cases you create to 10-15 if you want to be even more sure your algorithm works.
Hello Riya, how much problems do you think I should do per week in order to advance to silver in a month if I just started USACO. I didn't start before as I was becoming roasted by school and the AMC 10 that came up a week ago.
For Bronze, 10 problems a week is a good number. Just be careful that you aren't sacrificing the quality of the problems to get a high quantity of problems, you want to make sure you are getting a lot of improvement from each problem you are working on (I think I have a video on this called "The biggest time trap when preparing for usaco").
It would be quite nice if we could just reject grades and focus on usaco! Unfortunately colleges look at both grades and competitions, so you need both to get in. One can wish though...
Hi, just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos and find them helpful, especially your recent interviews and videos on mindset. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Great to hear it, I’ll try to make more that you like!
Hey Riya, I really enjoy your contents! Thank you so much for making these! I'm wondering what steps I should take to pass bronze? I am good at programming in c++ and I have solved around 30 USACO problems but I am still unable to solve a lot of the normal and hard difficulty questions and I would have to look at the solution for them. Do you have any suggestions?
This depends, what’s the main issue you run into with the harder Bronze problems? Is it coming up with the algorithm, implementing the algorithm, or debugging it? Also, how long does it take you to solve the easier Bronze problems that you solve?
@@riya_arora Hey Riya, I think I tend to overcomplicate things for harder problems sort of like overfitting the sample case and then it will fail for the other test cases. I think I can solve easy usaco problems pretty fast and normal ones around 1 hour
@@zappist751 One suggestion I have for this is to create 6-7 test cases of size N=6 or N=7, and make sure your algorithm works on all of those test cases before beginning to code. That small cost of time in the beginning can and will save you a lot of time later on when you don't get stuck with a wrong code where you aren't sure if the algorithm is wrong or if there is just a bug.
This seems like a simple thing, and the beauty of it is that it is! That means you can start it right away. Let me know how this goes. You can also increase the number of test cases you create to 10-15 if you want to be even more sure your algorithm works.
@@riya_arora Hey Riya, thank you so much for the suggestion! I will definitely try this out :D
Hello Riya, how much problems do you think I should do per week in order to advance to silver in a month if I just started USACO. I didn't start before as I was becoming roasted by school and the AMC 10 that came up a week ago.
For Bronze, 10 problems a week is a good number. Just be careful that you aren't sacrificing the quality of the problems to get a high quantity of problems, you want to make sure you are getting a lot of improvement from each problem you are working on (I think I have a video on this called "The biggest time trap when preparing for usaco").
Reject skewl, do usacow or comp math... (jk jk focus on grades)
It would be quite nice if we could just reject grades and focus on usaco! Unfortunately colleges look at both grades and competitions, so you need both to get in. One can wish though...