Recently I participated in a programming contest named BNPCHS 2009, or Bina Nusantara Programming Contest for High School Students. It was a national contest in Indonesia. Luckily I was one of the finalists. I passed the qualification round, by marking full points on 3 given problems.

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As you learn new algorithms, you will find that it’s easier to remember them by trying to really code them in your chosen programming language. You may also have been solving programming problems and realize that some standard algorithms are used extensively and repetitively. What I want to suggest you is to create your own code library.

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How many hours do you spend for coding in a week?

Yes, the amount of time you spend plays a role of improvement of our skill. It would be very good if we train more in programming contests. The problem is we usually do not know what contest runs when.

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Many friends of mine often ask me, “why do people like you love programming contest? What’s so fun with it?” Well, I remembered my first time I knew programming–when my sister introduced QBasic to me! So why is it fun? Here are my opinions. Feel free to comment.

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