How to Write Coding Contest Experiences on GeeksForGeeks

What is a Contest Experience?

Contest Experience is an initiative by GeeksForGeeks, that allows programmers all over the globe to share their experience of giving some coding contests. The contests may belong to the following categories:

• Coding Contests of platforms such as GeeksForGeeks, Leetcode, CodeForces etc.
• Special Contests such as GSoc, ICPC, AlgoQueens etc.
• Online Assessments for any job application
• Coding Rounds for Interviews.

Purpose of Contest Experience?

The coding community is expanding quickly, and new programmers are eager to learn from others’ experiences. Whether a contest’s experiences is good or bad, it helps other programmers learn something new such as:

• One’s thinking behind coming to a particular solution.
• How one struggles during coding round and how to tackle it.
• Tips to ace specific type of questions, etc

By learning from others mistakes or experiences, new coders can save a lot of their crucial time, Hence this Contest Experience by GeeksForGeeks is launched to strengthen our coding community.

How to Write a Contest Experience:

A Good Contest Experience should be readable, summarized and should follow a proper format, for this we can explain our experience with the help of following headings:

• About The Contest:
  • A small gist of the Contest in order to let readers get familiar with it.
• Eligibiltiy Criteria (If any):
  • This section consists of any eligibility criteria such as degree, age, gender if any.
• Link of Contest (If live)
• Perks/Prizes/Offers (If any):
  • Since every contest have some reward associated to it for the winners, this section comprises of those rewards
• Overview of the Questions:
  • This section provides an overview of the problems asked, this can be in form of a table consisting of following coloums:
  • Problem Name
  • Difficulty
  • Pre-requiste to solve that problem
  • Approximate time taken to solve by you
  • Number of Attempts by you
• My Experience:
  • This section is where you have to write the difficulties or the challenges you faced while solving the problems, and a simple gist of the approach that gave you the right answer.
• Conclusion:
  • This section summarizes your experience in terms of what was the result of the contest or what did you expected from the contest

Where to Write Contest Experience?

• Visit https://write.geeksforgeeks.org/
• Under the section Share your Experience select Coding Contest Experience as shown in the image

Sample Contest Experience Links:

• Contest Experience: GeeksforGeeks Weekly Contest 113
• Contest Experience: Leetcode Weekly Contest 344 (7th May)