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improve analytical, code understanding, programming skills.

Hi,

How to improve analytical, code understanding, programming skills. Are there are good sites with puzzles based on which i can develop some programs. I heard there are some interviews are based on this puzzle concepts. Please advise

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dpearson

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gudii9

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I see same piece of code takes days together to understand whereas some other collegues it takes few minutes to understand and identify any bug in the code and suggest a fix. please advise

ozo

What piece of code are you referring to?

dpearson

I see same piece of code takes days together to understand whereas some other collegues it takes few minutes to understand and identify any bug in the code and suggest a fix. please advise

People have widely different software engineering skills. I think it's very common in this business for the most skilled developers to be 10-15 times faster than less skilled developers. It's just the nature of what we do. If you can see the underlying design and truly understand how a piece of software works, you can find and fix problems much faster than somebody who doesn't get the deeper picture.

As to how to get better at that? Generally it takes years of education and study. There's no quick fix.

Doug

gudii9

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I went to url below

For general training:
http://www.crunchzilla.com/

I was not sure how to use it. I see some Maven text boxes there.
Also how to use below site.
http://www.codechef.com/
Please advise

Codebat site example i was able to try and see solution right away and compare the learning graph etc.

dpearson

For general training:
http://www.crunchzilla.com/

I was not sure how to use it. I see some Maven text boxes there.

If this site seems too complex for you, I'm not sure you're really in the right field? My daughter learned from this site last year without any help and she's only 11.

I'd say give it another look and see if you can figure it out.

Doug

rrz

Doug, please consider that English might not be his native language. Also, for a site like that, a difference in culture might get in the way.

I see some Maven text boxes there.

Please don't confuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven
with
http://maven.apache.org/developers/conventions/code.html

gudii9

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Sorry. I have to click multiple times to see different shapes being formed using java and java script code in the link below.
http://www.crunchzilla.com/

I will look into codechef site also more detailedly