ACM Warmup Lessons..

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat allah wa barakatoh

Last post about the ACM Warmups contained some details about what happened in the contest day...

What about lessons we got ?

mmm, First, I should say that no one -till now- reads this blog -it's my own will BTW- so I don't think anybody will get any benefit from the lessons I'll post.. so let the post be mmm a personal evaluation other than lessons for public..

Second, Abdul Rahman, our new-bie partener, has some good points and some bad ones..
Good Point:
- He thinks well..
Bad Point(s):
- He has difficulties in English..
- He gets tired easily..
- Don't concenterate a lot..

Having 3 bad points and 1 good point doesn't mean he is bad.. I believe he will have a good future ISA... Even if we didn't do something this year together, ISA he can do something with his new team next year...

Third, The contest problemset, I think it was kinda easy, except the Dynamic problem, it was easy too but just mm u know, broke the ice....

Fourth, for myself, I need more practice .... more and more... I put that in my plan and ISA will follow it...

That's all for now...

C u next post ISA...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat allah wa barakatoh

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