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Coaches on Codeforces
By mkisic, history, 6 years ago, In English

Hi!

There are a lot of competitive programming coaches who offer online lessons. What do you think, should Codeforces create some subpage where coach can provide information (like prices) about himself?

In chess world, popular sites have pages about that. For example,

https://lichess.org/coach

https://www.chess.com/coaches

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yes

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anyone wanting to be coached and eager to fight the organization can contact me. The mad sports programmer (sp) Hououin Riela is always glad to help!

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There are a lot of competitive programming coaches who offer online lessons.

Really? And what do they offer? Or what do you want from online coach?

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    probably just hang out and have fun solving problems

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    Learn new stuff like algorithms. I know that there is a lot of free lectures online, but if someone wants to pay private coach, it's his decision.

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I teach for 50$/h. If somebody is interested, just DM me.

I think it doesn't make much sense for Competitive Programming because you should do it for fun (so why would you pay?), but I do recommend it if you're preparing for a coding interview. Then it's a fight to get a job and it's worth it.

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    winning is more fun then not winning (anything else being equal), so it's like paying for your own enjoyment in the future which people do all the time.

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    do you also coach for system design?

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      I don't :( sorry

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        I'm also in the coaching business, and I also teach system design, so I'm one step ahead of you ;)

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    I teach for free, but you have to be an interesting person :)

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      And how will you decide that?

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        There's no easy answer. You have to convince me that you are worth my time.

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          could you tell us an example for a person got a training/mentoring with you ?

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            Seems no one was able to convince him XD

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            I don't understand the question. Can you elaborate?

            Also, if you spam my inbox right now, please keep in mind that I'm extremely busy this week (I'm organizing a competition with Errichto) and I'll read everything, but with a large delay. Sorry about that!

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        you know, you have to be interesting, just like me

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I read this as "Cockroaches on Codeforces" and was confused for a second

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