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Автор pachon, 12 лет назад, По-английски

Hi Guys, we have recently form this team, but we are already more than a year involved in programming competitions, we have a basic knowledge, but we think that our individual efforts are not enough :(, so we are looking for someone that guides us not only with topics and problems but with hints and tricks ;). We don't want to be exigent, but we are looking for an experimented programmer that can spend some time in our training. Thank you all.

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Why do you think somebody should spend his own time on teaching some random guys?

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    Well I think that codeforces is a great community, and maybe some of the members can help other members.

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      Well, of course, some of the members can help other members, but nobody will agree to spend his brilliant time (lots of his brilliant time) on some unknown guys. Don't you see the logic?
      Everybody is on his own here. If you want a good coach — you should pay for his work. He won't work with you for free, because you mean nothing for him.

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I can't be your coach as I'm not very good, but it will be fun and helpful if we host contests, say weekly, on virtual judge with problems from online judge for students preparing for ICPC.

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Just curious — how this coaching should look? You need a man who will say "go solve some problems!" when you are not working hard enough? CF, Codechef, TopCoder, Hackerrank and other sites all give you possibility to read solutions of other coders and provide detailed editorials.

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I can be your coach for 500 bottles of Jaguar

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I'm sorry, but J4T8Z9 has got good point and statements like "Well I think that codeforces is a great community, and maybe some of the members can help other members." in this case is just naivety. As you can see in my comments, I really often explain my solutions, try to emphasize ideas behind etc., but being permanent trainer is a really big commitment and nobody will want to do it really good for free. It is rather a normal thing that in order to obtain a permanent help you need to pay someone to do it, but on the other hand being paid for Internet help is somewhat awkward, I won't do it also.

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    High-five!

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    They may find some new friends among high-rated coders — and these red coders will see it like conversation with some interesting people, and helpful advices about ACM will be just one of topics to talk about, beside other non-programming stuff:)

    And there is also a possibility that someone want to try to become successful coach, then he will be motivated not by money or being someone's friend, but by his willing to become not only a successful contestant, but also a good trainer — to learn how to explain ideas better, how to help other coders to improve their weak sides, how to motivate people, how to build right training plans and so on.

    And there can be also lot of different reasons to help other people — it reminds me of this discussion as an example:)