From beginner to expert in competitive programming.

Hey Everyone,

If you want to hear from a expert, you can leave it right now as I am just a software developer but these steps are followed by many ex-googlers for beating competitive programming and one of them told me this.

For Starting You can follow the following steps:

•  Learn Basic syntax of let us say programming language c(if,else,for,while,break ,input,output,datatypes,and their range).
  
  
• Solve your first problem www.spoj.com/problems/TEST/
  
  
• You will learn what all you need to get a problem submitted.
  
  
• Find problems that only follow a particular formulae and solve around 20 problems.
  
  
• Now you are well aware how to get code submitted input and output.
  
  
• Now go for problems that requires optimization like   www.spoj.com/problems/ARRAYSUB/   attempt 20 of them.
  
  
• Now go for DP problems.
  
  
• Now start reading geeksforgeeks.com  and start coding on Codechef, Codeforces, HackerRank,  HackerEarth.
  
  
• You can now try reading books for algorithms. Below are listed some good books for this. 
  
  

• Start Reading about trees and graphs. Now leave the programming forms that don’t involve dp and tree, graphs or any other complex algorithms.

• Maintain few good projects on Github , maintain good profile on linkedin. This aspect is only for job and in open source community

• Few Famous contest for you are : facebook hackers cup, Google CODEJAM , ACM-ICPC and few others.

• Start reading and solving Interview questions.

You dont need any book if you have internet.

These are steps one googler told me to follow but I m lazy 😛