Master DSA and Coding Skills | IIT Bombay + Microsoft Mentor for Kids, Teens & Professionals

Sarita brings an excellent engineering background with over 10 years of experience. She completed thorough groundwork before beginning the course, demonstrating strong preparation and commitment. She is focused, attentive, and genuinely curious to learn and deepen her understanding.

Sunip has a strong understanding of his domain, which enables him to connect programming concepts with their practical, real-world applications during his sessions.

You are experienced in coding terminologies and usage, but you lack the critical thinking skills required to solve DSA as of now. You need to focus your attention on understanding how DSA algorithms have evolved over a period of time, and what need do they fullfilled.

You are very eager to learn and show strong commitment to developing your skills. At times, you rely too much on my guidance—have more faith in yourself and try to attempt tasks independently. With greater confidence, you will progress quickly and achieve excellent results.

Your son has strong understanding of basic C and C++ terminology and concepts. He can solve beginner level problems that are asked in INOI as of today. He has a strong grasp of core concepts which are required to build into the complex concepts. From INOI syllabus point of view, I would say he has almost completed 15% of the syllabus.

I have looked into the past year INOI problems from the link you shared with me previously. Most of the problem lies in the intermediate range, and some problems goes upto advanced level. I expected the problems to be quite simpler considering the grade of the students, but this olympiad is quite advanced, and I dont feel 1 month is sufficient time to actually become comfortable with such advanced problems.

Your son doesn't have understanding about the data structures which are the foundation for attempting such questions in a competitive exam. So before even starting with the topics you have asked me to teach, I need to teach the data structures which are actually required to implement those concepts.

After which, to understand the concepts and to actually understand where to apply which concept, he needs to have idea about algorithm complexities and how to take hints from the question to understand which category of algorithms they are requesting.

Once he is upto this point, then I can begin to explain the algorithmic topics like greedy, dynamic programming, game theory, back tracking, etc.