I think that real world it self is a contest. The pressure of the manager is a good factor to test your mind balance.
I think that real world problems are good problems, and i had many chances to create programs from scratch, and making them maintainable, commented, flexible and robust are the real factors of decision to be the real world winner.
How to replicate this in the contests is the real question.
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I think that real world it self is a contest. The pressure of the manager is a good factor to test your mind balance.
I think that real world problems are good problems, and i had many chances to create programs from scratch, and making them maintainable, commented, flexible and robust are the real factors of decision to be the real world winner.
How to replicate this in the contests is the real question.