Being able to read and understand x86-64 assembly (or PTX/SASS for an Nvidia GPU) is much more important than being able to write it. In practice, even when you're writing assembly, you're looking at reference assembly generated by a compiler from C code you wrote.
Similarly, the reality is that as a professional programmer you spend no time doing work like leetcode.
Instead, you spend a lot of time understanding and slightly modifying (fixing or enhancing/extending) code.
With the rise of language model code completion systems (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) even more time will be spent inspecting and understanding code to find problems.
With these facts in mind, I have been building a new form of leetcode:
Most puzzles are interesting algorithms that you will learn useful techniques from, so it's never a waste of time to think about them. And even though the bugs are all quite trivial, I can see it's very challenging for many people.
It's about half-way ready to launch, needing 30 more puzzles. I am working my way through Knuth's The Art of Programming Volume 4B and today I'll see if Algorithm X (Dancing Links Exact Cover Backtracking) can be made to fit for Bugs 38 and 39 (or whether it's too complicated).
Similarly, the reality is that as a professional programmer you spend no time doing work like leetcode.
Instead, you spend a lot of time understanding and slightly modifying (fixing or enhancing/extending) code.
With the rise of language model code completion systems (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) even more time will be spent inspecting and understanding code to find problems.
With these facts in mind, I have been building a new form of leetcode:
https://BUGFIX-66.com
Most puzzles are interesting algorithms that you will learn useful techniques from, so it's never a waste of time to think about them. And even though the bugs are all quite trivial, I can see it's very challenging for many people.
It's about half-way ready to launch, needing 30 more puzzles. I am working my way through Knuth's The Art of Programming Volume 4B and today I'll see if Algorithm X (Dancing Links Exact Cover Backtracking) can be made to fit for Bugs 38 and 39 (or whether it's too complicated).