Everyone wants to be known for their ridiculously best coding skills, right? And we are all aware of how difficult it is, as it requires a great effort whether it’s about formulating a logic to solve a problem or implementing it into code. So, to solve a problem one must have good logic building capability.
And to create logics much faster, you need practice and for that you need more problems. And there are many sites which offer you exactly this in form of study materials for brushing up your coding skills.
The resources that would help you to improve your coding skills and perform better in coding interviews can be seen as two groups.
First is the study material group. In this, you would interact with the sites where you can get material to study, basically for theoretical knowledge. These involve online courses. Some are free and some are paid. These sources are for learning the programming skills and getting aware of all the technologies that you like.
Some of these resources to study are –
1. EDX (free)
It is a platform founded by Harvard and MIT which offers a wide range of courses. You can find various free online courses on a decent range of topics published by Harvard and MIT. You can also attain a verified certificate from these universities but that is paid.
2. GeeksForGeeks (free)
This is a computer science portal where you find articles and study material on almost all the computer science topic. It provides free resources.
3. Udemy(paid – low price)
It is an online learning platform where you get tons of online courses, almost for all topics and technologies you can think of. Udemy offers reasonable price courses and certificates that you can use in your resumes to showcase.
4. Coursera (paid – fairly priced)
This is also one such online learning platform where you get online courses from various universities all around the world.
The second group is the practice resources. In this, you would get the resources where you need to practice the topics and skills that you have learned from the first category resources. For developing skills that are required to get jobs, you need to practice the questions of interview level, participate in contests and practice questions to increase your logics.
So of the resources to practice are:
1. Hacker Rank
It is an online coding challenge platform where you can participate in various challenges and also you may find a lot of questions on various topics to practice. It focuses on developing coding skills through competitive programming. You can practice question-related to most of the popular programming languages.
2. Hacker Earth
It is also a coding challenge platform where you can practice and participate in various challenges to develop your coding skills. On Hacker Earth many companies post there challenges and contests. If you are able to crack these problems then you may get rewarded with various prizes and job offers, also.
3. Codechef
It is a nonprofit initiative from Ditecti which is a product based company. It is an online platform for competitive programming. You can develop your coding and problem solving skills through participating in contests held on codechef.
4. Codeforces
This is also a competitive programming platform which is best for short time challenges. You can develop skills for coding interviews through participating in short challenges.
