r/usaco

Context: I'm a sophomore with basic/minimal java knowledge, I started USACO guide first but got stuck on shell game

Studying 4-6h/week

Until Mid September - Finish all codingbat problems and get started on leetcode easy.

October - Start on USACO guide + start grinding codeforces

November - finish bronze USACO guide section + starting doing all previous year bronze problems + continue on cf

December - continue the same from november, grind like 4-5 hours a day during winter break

im hoping to make silver this year maybe gold if everything goes perfect, is this a good plan for me or is there something I should tweak?

Hey!

I am an EGOI 2023 Bronze Medalist, and I am starting private tutoring for the informatics olympiad. I will tutor in english and it will be 1:1 or 1:few. I did my undergraduate in maths and Theoretical computer science, and I'm starting my research masters in theoretical computer science. I can only take 2-3 students.

I can easily teach topics up to the USACO Gold level, and work together with the Platinum ones.

Leave a comment or dm me if you are interested. We can work out the charges to see what fits both of us :)

I am also preparing for IOI. From morning to evening (just like a robot). I finished usaco bronze in 2-3 weeks and now I am doing Usaco Silver( I will finish it in a week cause now I am in the last topic which is bitwise operations). I solved every problem on the usaco.guide bronze/silver level except from 'very hard' ones.My plan is finishing Usaco Gold in 2-3 months and moving into IO problems. After practicing IO problems 4-5 months I hope will qualify for IOI team. If you are an IOI medalist, Do you think this is good plan and daily routine? What was yours ?

rn i think im like a gold - platinum level the only problem is the prestige of the competition is becoming devalued due to the amount of cheaters and i dont know any other prestigous cs competitions. Im really scared by the time im applying for colleges i dont have any really good cs awards or prestige. Do you guys have any adivce

I am an IMO gold medalist with virtually no competitive programming experience beyond basic math algorithms. I have 9 months to prepare for my national IOI selection tests, where achieving a mid-IOI bronze level is typically enough to qualify for the team. I can commit to around 5 hours of study per day. How realistic is this transition, and what resources should I use to get up to speed?

So I kind of found out about this really late as in me going to junior year. I started studying 2 weeks ago with the USACO guide and I think I’ll be able to finish bronze and silver by January and maybe I can try for gold. But I don’t know how much time that will. Does anyone have any rough estimates on how much time per week it would take and sources that would help. I really wanted to get platinum due to me wanting to do early admission so I won’t be able to get next year in time for collage, but I think gold for this year is the max I can get.

Hello! I'm just getting started with USACO and was wondering if anybody has any tips or resources they'd recommend to getting into it? I have a pretty strong competition math background and heard that's a good starting point. I also heard from some friends that USACO guide is not a good resource to use starting out. I also read about the "editorial spam" method from an earlier reddit post. Is that a common/effective method people use?

Also, I was wondering if anyone here is from the Delaware Valley Area and is interested in Computational Biology (specifically developing algorithms/models)? If so, pm me...

Been looking for a one on one teacher recently to help for getting from usaco silver to plat

My dad has been looking into recursive dragon coaching(teacher is Kevin Yang), which I heard was very sketchy, and also seems quite pricy. Does anyone have experience with this class or recommendations for other one on one teachers?

Thanks

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