How beneficial is it to do programming on codechef?

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There are three stages when you practice programming on codechef website. I am going to mention each stage and then it’s advantage.

Stage -1
Suppose you are a beginner and have learned a new language that can be any programming language such as c++ or python.
You learned all the syntax of the any one programming language and now you want to practice questions on a specific language.
Take a look at the codechef website-Codechef.
After visiting the codechef website, you can practice some beginner-friendly questions available on the codechef website.
Once you start practicing on these, you will learn that
  1. How does this codechef work?
  2. As a beginner, you will learn how to tackle a problem.
  3. You will get to know the online challenges that continually take place in codechef like cook-off, long challenges and several others.
  4. Once you practice questions on a particular language. You will get very familiar to syntax and you will also learn about test cases.
Stage 2
If you crossed the beginner phase. It means that you have practiced all the basic questions about the chosen language and are now taking a course on Data Structure and Algorithms.
If you are practicing problems after completing a lecture, codechef can be very beneficial for you.
  1. You will learn a particular Data structure very well and start liking it.
  2. You will understand how important it is to analyze the complexity of time and space while solving a problem.
  3. Writing code will give you immense confidence in that topic.
Stage - 3
Once you have crossed the intermediate level of practicing problems and know the data structures and algorithms quite well. It is the right time to participate in the programming contest that takes place on codechef.
Several programming competitions will continue to take place at Codechef in a month. Participate in all these competitions. I will suggest you to start with long challenges if you are participating for the first time.
Once you start participating, you will definitely learn a lot and the benefits are
  1. Every time you participate in an online competition, you will pick new algorithms and also learn new concepts.
  2. Participating in all these competitions will give you immense confidence. You will also learn how to solve a problem if you have a fixed time limit.
  3. You will learn to analyze the time and space complexity of any problem. Once you start getting TLE, you will try to optimize the code. You will learn the habit of debugging your code.
Learning to optimize and debug your code is by far the best skill to learn. If you are preparing for an interview from any product based company.
This skill will help you a lot in every company interview.
The most important thing is that you will start finding this online challenges very interesting and start learning at a fast rate.
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