The first week of the year has been filled with some exciting news and updates for programming enthusiasts. With free Special Classes and Micro-courses on Unacademy’s Competitive Programming category, our educators have covered a wide array of topics suiting every programmer’s needs. With some classes being a follow-up from the previous week, we also picked up new topics. Let’s get into the details of some of those popular classes that opened up the year for every budding programmer.
For those of you who are unaware what these classes are, Special Classes are free classes and can be attended by anyone on the Unacademy Platform who registers and chooses Competitive Programming as her goal. You can sign up on the Unacademy Platform using your mobile number or email address. You would be receiving an OTP on you registered credentials which you need to enter in the sign up menu. Once you have signed up, you need to add Competitive Programming to your goal from the drop down menu to avail these free classes.
What’s on the plate this week?
Jan 3, 2021 – Getting stuck while solving problems related to Heaps? A Heap is a specialized tree-based data structure that is essentially an almost complete tree that satisfies the heap property. The topic comprises several kinds of problems of varying difficulty, some of which might keep you a bit perplexed, but we have you covered. Our educator Rohit Mazumder has the perfect solution for all your worries. His special class focuses on some of the challenging questions that you might face related to Heaps. Get down to work and fix all your Heap issues!
Jan 4, 2021 – Loops might be one of the most widely used methods to solve a wide range of problems. It forms a big part of the whole Brute Force approach in programming. Arnab Chakraborty’s special class on Loops will help you tackle advanced problems and solve them effectively with Loops. The concepts that you grasp during the class will allow you to solve advanced logical problems with ease. Start with the classes now and get a head start in your preparation.
Jan 5, 2021 – Segment trees is a programming concept that not many people are familiar with. A segment tree is a data structure that allows answering range queries over an array effectively while still being flexible enough to allow modifying the array. Surya Kiran Adury’s class on segment trees is a must-watch if you want to learn more about this concept. With discussions about important concepts and problem-solving techniques, all your segment tree related queries will vanish away.
Jan 5, 2021 – Arrays are among the most essential and basic concepts in data structures and algorithms. This might be the topic that most people are aware of, but certain problems need a bit more attention when discussing arrays. Arnab Chakraborty’s free class on arrays is the ideal starting point for any budding programmer. Learning the concepts effectively and solving the problems based on that would help you learn the topic easily.
We also had the ICPC Training Series Contest 2 lecture sessions on the Unacademy Platform so be sure to check them out. A personalized roadmap for your programming goals in 2021 was also designed by our educators. These classes started on 5th January, 2021 and were specially curated to meet a budding programmers needs.
With the added option of interactive sessions, you get the opportunity to solve your doubts the moment you have them during the live classes. Our educators have worked with some of the biggest and most talented teams in the world. They have gone on to compete in the finals of the most coveted programming competitions in the world. Hundreds of students have already become a part of our initiative.
Next week we’ll come up with another roundup discussing more of these special classes. This is Ashutosh from CodeChef, hoping that you would start with the classes as soon as you read about them. Till then, keep coding!
