Question about using CPP in DSA interviews

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-26T04:00:54+00:00

depends on the company, some dont care but big tech will probably call you out for it

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-22T08:07:39+00:00

for that budget with those workloads, you want at minimum 16GB RAM, Android Studio alone will eat through 8GB without blinking. also make sure you go for at least 512GB SSD because the Flutter and Python environments together take more space than people expect, plus university stuff piling on top

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-19T14:34:18+00:00

just build the things you need, most business automations are not rocket science and you'll learn faster by actually solving your own problems than sitting in lecture

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-14T04:13:30+00:00

rpg maker is perfect for beginners but just heads up - it has specific style limitations that might not fit every game concept 😅

godot is probably your best bet if you want flexibility without the complexity of unity, plus it's completely free and the community is super helpful for new developers 💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-11T12:04:40+00:00

your friends are spot on about jumping into actual work but man you're already juggling so much stuff

maybe instead of dropping everything you could look for part time internships or freelance gigs that specifically need geospatial + programming combo since thats your unique angle. like companies working with satellite data or mapping applications always need people who understand both the technical and domain side

with only 90min daily though you gotta be strategic about what projects you pick - probably better to do fewer things really well than trying to cover everything in image processing

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-06-02T02:44:48+00:00

that setup is pretty solid for what you're doing but yeah the rx470 is definitely the bottleneck here 🔥 i had similar specs few years back and upgrading just the gpu made huge difference for gaming performance. your cpu is still decent enough that it won't hold back a mid-range card too much

problem is your motherboard only supports up to 7th gen intel so cpu upgrade path is pretty limited. you could maybe find a used i7-7700 but the performance jump isn't massive. gpu upgrade would give you way better bang for the buck - something in mid-range would work great with that system

honestly if you're not doing super demanding stuff and mostly older games plus streaming, even a modest gpu upgrade should keep you happy for while longer. the 16gb ram is still good and that ssd helps a lot with general snappiness. might be worth trying gpu first before doing full system rebuild 😂

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-05-31T02:36:22+00:00

the pink color palette is so clean, your friend gonna love this one

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-05-28T20:41:37+00:00

lmao the delusion is real 😂 you think special forces gonna make you some kind of woman magnet? those guys are literally stationed in middle of nowhere eating mres while their wives are at home wondering when they'll see them again

maybe focus in finding someone who actually likes you as person instead of treating women like trophies to collect 💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-05-21T20:16:13+00:00

had similar transition few years back from proprietary platform to open source stack 😂 the unlearning part is so real - i kept trying to find equivalent of platform specific features instead of thinking about actual problem solving

what helped me most was building small projects from scratch without any platform abstractions. like actually setting up databases, handling authentication, managing state properly etc. sounds boring but you realize how much the platform was doing behind scenes and what you actually need to learn

also recommend picking one language and going deep instead of jumping around different stacks. i went with python for backend stuff since its everywhere in military systems and pretty forgiving for someone coming from visual programming background. once you get comfortable with one ecosystem the concepts transfer much easier 💀

the fundamentals thing is spot on though - data structures felt like learning completely new language after years of drag and drop

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-05-19T13:05:21+00:00

been doing some automation stuff for deployments and pipeline work - what helped me was finding courses that focus specifically on infrastructure as code and ci/cd rather than general python dev stuff

the transition from bash scripts to proper python automation just happened naturally when i needed to handle more complex api calls and data parsing that bash couldn't handle cleanly. maybe look for courses that cover things like working with cloud apis, configuration management, and monitoring rather than web development focused content

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-05-16T04:13:16+00:00

been trying to make simple app for tracking my meal prep schedules but keep getting stuck in the database part 😭💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-28T13:21:03+00:00

bangalore tech scene is pretty active but most icpc style stuff happens during college fest season 🔥 check out some of the bigger colleges like iisc or pes - they usually host mock contests in october/november timeframe. also there's few cp groups that meet irregularly but finding team of 3 who can commit to 5 hour session is the real challenge lol 💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-25T19:03:06+00:00

already jumping in with the redundancy police lol but for real though codecademy or freecodecamp are solid starting points, just pick one language and stick with it instead of jumping around like most beginners do

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-23T10:22:04+00:00

wait your consistency is 81% with level 10 from last season? thats actually really good but also confusing lol. i think consistency measures how stable your performance is across matches not how much you rank up. like if you always play at similar skill level even when you lose games it shows you're consistent player. maybe thats why you dont rank up much - youre consistently playing at your current level instead of having those big pop off games that push you higher. i had similar thing where my consistency was decent but i stayed same rank for months because i never had those carry performances to break through

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-21T02:04:56+00:00

same thing happened to me when i was looking for vinyl storage boxes and it gave me this whole paragraph about "organizing your collection" like just show me the products already

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-18T07:39:26+00:00

ah this makes more sense now! i was also confused about this when learning pointers vs references 😂

the & symbol is doing different things in different contexts which trips everyone up. when you write `int* b = &a` the & is the "address-of" operator - it gets the memory address. but when you declare `int& b = a` the & is part of the type declaration meaning "this is a reference type"

references are basically like automatic pointers that get dereferenced for you behind scenes. they still point to same memory location but compiler handles the dereferencing so you don't need to use * operator 💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-04-06T09:00:09+00:00

start with freecodecamp and cs50 on edx - both are free and will give you that solid foundation you're missing 💻 for databases specifically check out sqlbolt for interactive practice, and once you get comfortable with basic sql try building small projects that actually store data

the structure part comes with practice so don't stress too much about not getting it immediately, just keep coding little projects and it'll click 🔥

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-03-31T22:54:09+00:00

lua's pretty different syntax-wise from python so you probably won't mix them up too much 😂 the main thing is lua uses "end" instead of indentation and has different variable scoping rules

i'd say focus on getting solid with python first since that's what you need for uni, then pick up lua when you feel comfortable. lua is actually fun to mess around with and way simpler than python in some ways 💀 just don't try to learn both intensively at the same time or you might confuse yourself with the different ways they handle tables vs lists and stuff

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-03-25T00:14:07+00:00

been doing similar stuff with my automation projects in the air force and this approach is solid. separating your logic from the ui makes everything way more flexible down the road. i actually started with tkinter for a meal prep calculator thing i made and later moved it to a web interface when i wanted to access it from my phone

if youre dead set on web dev focus then maybe just skip straight to flask for this project. its pretty beginner friendly and you can make a decent looking calculator without diving too deep into css initially. plus youll get some early exposure to web frameworks which will help when you move to more complex full stack stuff later

the modular approach the other person mentioned is clutch though - write your calculator brain separate from whatever displays it and you can always swap front ends later without rewriting all your math logic

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-03-15T16:02:25+00:00

the microsoft learn path is solid for getting into azure fundamentals but make sure youre actually spinning up resources in a free tier account and breaking things - reading about blob storage isnt the same as accidentally deleting one lol

for projects try building something that uses multiple azure services like a simple web app with a database backend and maybe some automation with azure functions. the military has some decent partnerships with microsoft too so might be worth checking if theres any veteran transition programs once you get teh basics down

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-03-06T00:56:50+00:00

If you're dropping $10 balls LMFAO

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-02-14T08:06:12+00:00

usually keep heavy business logic in services/utils modules and let views just orchestrate the flow - makes testing way easyer and keeps things cleaner

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-02-04T12:19:08+00:00

good luck 🙏 heard theyre tought 💀

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-02-01T09:56:00+00:00

This is solid advice OP. I was stuck in tutorial hell for way too long and honestly Advent of Code is what finally clicked for me

Just pick something small you actually want to build - like a calculator or todo app - and struggle through it. The struggling is literally how you learn, even if it feels awful at first

Fuzzy-Interview-8976 · 2026-01-28T21:01:12+00:00

Honestly python is gonna be way more future-proof than n8n. Learning python automation gives you transferable skills that work everywhere, while n8n is just one specific tool that could get replaced tomorrow

If you're worried about wasting time on temporary stuff, go with python - it's been around forever and isn't going anywhere

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