Hello everyone,

I am typical programmer in Codeforces. Aside from problem solving, I also like to work at small-to-medium size projects.

My current rating is 977 and I would like to improve my rating. I've been solving problems for 3 years now. Does making projects decrease the capability to solve problems?

Though I will say in this year I haven't given much time to solving problems due to exams.

I have searched the internet and most recommend solving more and more problems. But most don't provide any specific "pattern" to solve the problmes. Should I just go to Problem Set and try to solve a random problem between 900-1200?

It would be really helpful if anyone can provide a some guidelines.

Thanks. Regards, Mubin Muhammad

Reason for this question

As of now, The Zig Programming Language is young. Despite of that, people are using Zig to create software nowadays. For example, The new javascript runtime bun is entirely written in Zig, Tigerbleete(Financial Transactions Database) is written in Zig, Blacksmith(Better Github Actions) is written in Zig, etc. These are indeed good software.

In competitive programming, The main point is to get skilled at problem solving. But we should also know about the language we are using, And as days are passing in my honest opinion, C++ is getting bloated. Learning a fresh new language with amazing meta-programming seems a great idea.

I would like to know the thoughts of this community. Thanks. (I'm a still a newbie, After 3 years. (any suggestions would help))