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My Boyfriend Helped Me Become a Better Programmer
The best thing he did was getting me acquainted with competitive programming
I had a total of three boyfriends. The last one is my husband now. Fortunately or unfortunately, he is not a programmer. He is from a Marketing background and is now a Marketing Executive.
But my 2 previous boyfriends were programmers. One of them was an excellent programmer.
When I was studying Computer Science, all I was doing was learning the theories, Algorithms, Data structures, and some other stuff, but I was not practicing those.
There were some projects, but teachers gave us only 2 months to build a project. You might have wondered 2 months is a long time. But with regular class and with very little knowledge, it was tough to complete a project within 2 months.
So I felt that students didn’t have enough time to code because it’s also important to learn the theories. But my boyfriend helped me. The best way he did that was by teaching me competitive programming.
I always saw him excited about competitive programming
As we were classmates, we could spend a lot of time together. One day I found him solving a puzzle-type problem in the…
