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  • When I was learning c++ in high school, I made a working 10x10 implementation of Conway’s Life before I had learned about arrays.

    Even then I didn’t do it like this. Just had 200 variables for the front and back buffers, and one big function with individual checks for each grid coord variable to check it’s neighbors.



  • This advise is specific to op to get them started. But the optimum is a hybrid between mass apps and targeted. You should be spending 5 minutes per app for most, just changing a few words in the cover letter that no one is going to read beyond validating that it’s not terrible.

    For the occasional special job you’re more excited about, you can spend up to 30 minutes but not any more, unless you have a connection that can give you specific advice.

    It’s primarily a numbers game. You don’t want to feed despair by getting overly in to a particular job posting, but you can’t overtly look like you are shotgunning either.

    You can avoid the latter with changing the name of the role and mentioning one thing you’re excited about that the company does, in your cover letter template, and having a resume that is generically strong for the roles applied for.

    That can be done in 5 minutes.