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CodeForces mentions (82)

• From Campus to Big Tech: The Unfiltered, Deep-Dive Playbook for Indian CS Students to Crack FAANG+ (2026 Edition)

  Your preparation should not be random. Platforms like LeetCode, Codeforces, and GeeksforGeeks are tools—but what matters is how you use them. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: What Happened to Coding Competions?

  Most people who do competitive programming have moved to: . - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• My First Steps in Competitive Programming

  At first, the problems on platforms like Codeforces felt overwhelming. But after a few rounds, I realized something important:. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Why Codeforces is Great for Programmers

  Check it out and start competing today: https://codeforces.com/. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Self-Training Boosts Code Generation: RewardRanker Outperforms GPT-3.5 & Rivals GPT-4

  The researchers created their dataset from CodeContests and public Codeforces solutions, enriched with metadata. For supervised fine-tuning, they structured the data as prompt-completion pairs, using problem statements as prompts and solutions as completions. The balanced dataset contained 1.2 million samples, each averaging 1,500 tokens. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

StrataScratch mentions (4)

• Best one-stop-shop for SQL for data analysis / science?

  StrataScratch is focused on providing data analysis/science resources needed to land a job and resources for the first few years of your career. It has 600+ coding questions from real interviews where you can use SQL, python, or R. It has 500+ questions about ML theory, product sense, probability, statistics, also from real interviews. There are data projects that come from take home assignments companies give... Source: about 3 years ago

• Recommendations for Learning SQL

  I learned off of Mode Analytics SQL tutorial. It's free and I use it as a reference when I forget syntax. From there, my learning style is to grind on practical questions that I would get as a data analyst. So I would recommend stratascratch because all their questions are from real data science interviews which not only test for syntax but edge cases and business logic. Other platforms basically only test for... Source: about 3 years ago

• How do i practice SQL to be real world ready?

  There was a comment here about using Leetcode, Hackerrank, SQL fiddle, etc to keep learning SQL. However, if you're aim is to go into data analytics you need to go beyond learning syntax and understand edge cases and business context. You should grind on some data analytics/data science focused platforms like stratascratch and interviewquery. They have hundreds of questions with many free ones for your to practice. Source: about 3 years ago

• Brushing up on SQL for a job interview

  If you want some practice interview questions, check out DataLemur and/or StrataScratch. They helped me immensely in preparing for technical interviews. Source: about 3 years ago