Ahmed Hossam

For a long time I was always convinced that I need to be “somewhere” to start doing what I actually want.

The lexical analyzer (lexer) takes a stream of characters and produces a stream of names, keywords, and punctuation marks; it discards white space and comments between the tokens.

A compiler is built from many modules (lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, IR translation, optimization, code generation, etc).

I had a problem where I wanted to stop leaving the terminal and going to ChatGPT back and forth just for a quick question.

TL;DR # I tried competitive programming for a whole year and it didn’t work out well for me, I didn’t enjoy it and didn’t achieve anything remarkable as well.