 What's up guys? This is definitely one of the worst advice I've ever seen on Just like in general. Okay, so I saw this I was on cs career questions And then I saw this and it's like you've been doing leak code wrong this whole entire time. Okay, so here's what this Here's here's what this um This poster said All right, do not solve any questions on your own Okay, so he's saying it's a waste of time So he's saying but by solving anything on your own is a waste of time Don't spend five minutes on a problem. Don't even spend five minutes on a problem Okay, that I don't I don't understand like how how can you learn anything if you're just not even going to look at the problem And then here's what he says. Okay, so he says go and rock in the coding interview. Yeah, that's what that's what people do Well, you could use rock in the coding interview You could use cracking the coding interview I need that then he's like pick a pattern go to the leak code to search for the problems in that pattern And then just go straight to the solution and don't even spend one second solving the problem Understand the solution deeply and google things. You don't understand watch videos discussion on leak code. See others things Understand deeply move on to the problem repeat after you've done this for enough problems You'll feel like bob going on in your head And congrats. You're now Now you have to know how to solve this problem Uh, no, no, I don't think this is a good solution Okay, if you're not actually attempting to doing the problems themselves You're not going to learn anything Right, it's so he's then he goes on saying because you aren't wasting time spending on the problem Just one to three weeks You have a deep understanding of the major patterns and common solutions You will be able to recognize how to break these patterns out. No, no once you have done 300 400 problems Like it's no, no, no, no, no, okay Here's the thing that I don't like about this post is that I was in the exact situation of what this guy did before Where I've literally just went through like If you go on my code forces account, I literally did the exact same issue of what this guy was doing Okay, and what I was doing is I was literally just trying to go through like solved problems Just go through like 300. I in fact, I think on code forces. I did like 753 problems Right, that means like I've attempted 753 And that's way more than 300 400 problems like this where I literally just went to the solution without trying to solve anything And you and I didn't gain any ranking through through this, okay Like I didn't improve at all my understanding of problem solving my understanding of data structures and algorithms did not improve by just going to the solution okay, because You have to struggle through a problem Okay, like during an interview you actually have to learn how to struggle and get past the problem and figure out the problem on your own because What what happens if someone else What if what happens if they give another problem out that is different than lee code? Right, like it's like it's very similar to like the interview question on lee code But it's like it's a problem you've never seen before. How would you be able to solve it? right You can't just go through 300 400 problems like this and then Not just try to memorize the problems or memorize the patterns or whatever going through the Company specific questions without actually attempting to solve the problem. Okay, so I think this is like a terrible idea Okay, 300 400 problems like this is a terrible idea I literally did the exact issue like this Okay, so telling people to just go through like 300 to 400 problems and just just like Go to the solution and try to understand the the thought process is not a good idea Okay, generally what you try should try to do is actually try to attempt the problem Yourself for like a few hours or maybe even a days or maybe even a week Until you realize oh, I still I cannot solve it and then read line by line on the solution And how that works and then try to solve it again. Okay, that's really the main key takeaway to how to solve these problems Stuff like this going through 300 to 400 problems like this is not going to help you at all So the fact that this this post actually makes me angry Okay, because it's like for this post got 4,738 of votes Right, and he's actually telling people to do the wrong idea Okay, because if you just go through 300 400 problems and not actually attempt anything you're just going to get good at like memorizing like I don't know the solution, but without actually knowing how to use it Okay, so that's a big main issue of what I don't like about this post um, so in my opinion what you should do is you should actually Definitely go to the croc croc in the coding interview. I'm I'm I'm actually going through that book currently, but um Yeah, read the pattern and then try to attempt to solve like a medium The easy medium and then a hard based on like a company specific question Or just like try to solve them on your own first and then look at the solution If you still cannot solve it after like hours or days or even a week, okay? And then try to go through the solution line by line Write out the algorithm in English and then recode it up without looking at the solution That's my best advice I could give to this um, I hope you guys enjoyed this video This is just my thought takeaways on why this is like a really terrible idea. Very calm subscribe. I'll check you guys later. Peace