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If you want some extra practice after completing the problem set for a week, you can choose from these practice problems. These are not warm-up exercises; in many cases, they can be harder than the problem set problems themselves!
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Deliberate practice is interesting to me for two reasons. The first is that building career moats in my life necessarily requires me to go after rare and valuable skills. Therefore, anything that helps in the pursuit of such skills is likely to be interesting and relevant. Second, the deliberate practice research makes an awfully attractive claim: that anyone, given enough determination, can become good at any skill. They merely have to do lots and lots of difficult deliberate practice.
Second, the difficulties that emerge from lack of feedback. Self-learning means lack of feedback from a teacher, which means substituting feedback gained via other methods. This demands great creativity. Ericsson mentions that a common training technique used by chess players is to study a chess position from an actual game, and then attempt to make the next move as a grandmaster would. If the student finds that her chosen move differs from the actual move made by the grandmaster, she would go back to analyse what she missed. This technique may also be deployed for other skills; Ericsson suggests summarising a passage you admire and then reproducing it as closely as possible to the original, observing the differences you make after you are done. It was in this way that Benjamin Franklin taught himself to write.
In sum, applying deliberate practice in service of our careers is way more challenging than Ericsson makes it appear. I find myself continuously struggling when putting his ideas to practice, and I really dislike the hundred and one self-help blog posts that parrot his findings without attempting to apply them. Deliberate practice in the sorts of skills that we rely on in our careers is hard, because coming up with effective training methods is hard.
Joe Blitzstein, Professor of the Practice in Statistics
Harvard University, Department of Statistics
Contact AboutBookHandoutsPractice and SolutionsStat 110 on YouTubeStat110x on edX HOME / Strategic Practice and Homework Problems Actively solving practice problems is essential for learning probability. Strategic practice problems are organized by concept, to test and reinforce understanding of that concept. Homework problems usually do not say which concepts are involved, and often require combining several concepts. Each of the Strategic Practice documents here contains a set of strategic practice problems, solutions to those problems, a homework assignment, and solutions to the homework assignment. Also included here are the exercises from the book that are marked with an s, and solutions to those exercises.
Note that some sections will have more problems than others and some will have more or less of a variety of problems. Most sections should have a range of difficulty levels in the problems although this will vary from section to section.
To do this, ask yourself what are the major theorems and results you need to master in order to pass this class. Now, can you reproduce those proofs without looking at your notes? If not, this is a potent source of practice for mastering higher math subjects.
That being said, doing another classes problem sets can still be better than no preparation. Even if the problems change somewhat, you will have some confidence that you understand them more if you can solve problems (versus merely answering questions).
The idea is simple. Take the big idea that comes in a lesson, lecture or chapter. Now covering up your notes, try to explain what the big idea is. If the idea is a technical concept, can you explain how it is derived, or how it works? Can you explain why it works?
This allows you to get more confidence that you get the big picture of ideas. This is often essential in classes without problem sets, because they are often testing a deep conceptual understanding rather than calculating ability.
Richard Feynman was famous for this. In his autobiography, he talks about how he could get lost trying to analyze things from broken radios to wobbly plates. These may seem trivial for a Nobel-prize winning physicist, but they allowed him to build up a huge repertoire of math insight which helped him do important work.
One reason this method works is that a problem can encourage you to memorize a pattern for the solution. If all the problems are solved the same way, you can learn that pattern without understanding it. Playing with the math, in contrast, forces you to understand how the math works.
When you start learning a subject, it can feel hard and overwhelming. It may feel like the classes are rolling by too quickly for you to deeply learn anything. Maybe it will be better to just skip ahead and try to memorize enough to get by.
This is a slight tweak of a practice guide I wrote a while ago on USACO reddit since I thought it could be helpful to people here. Some USACO specific sections or extra clutter I left out here that aren't needed for a general audience. This should cover all general cp advice I have so I never have to retype.
This is a post on how I believe is the best method to practice modern day competitive programming based on my experiences. I assume you already have some knowledge and know simple things like binary search and dfs/bfs, but read the footnote if you are complete beginner (never code, solved
Also, if your primary goal is some goal outside of codeforces (let's say USACO, but could replace with any OI or if ICPC replace instance of OI with ICPC) Approximately once per week (probably on each weekend), I recommend you virtual an OI contest then upsolve the ones you understand the editorial for after. This should be old USACO contests until you finish all in the past 5 or so years, then use OI checklist to find new contests. Make sure you go for subtasks just as you would in real contests when doing so.
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