Javier qualified for the final round of National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) and went for the competition in NUS School of Computing today.
During the qualification round, Javier used Python to program the solution for the problems as that is the only programming language that he knows of. However, after reading the following on the NOI website, he decided to pick up C++ so that his code could run more efficiently. I was very amazed that he actually learned how to code in C++ all by himself in two days and then went for the competition. To me, that itself is a great achievement. The process of learning is more important than the result of the competition.
The competition ended pretty late today and we went for a late dinner. During dinner, he was so excited to share all the questions in the competition. Once again, I took a while to fully understand each question, and that was after hearing the explanation from him. Really proud of him and glad to see him so happy in doing something he's really interested in.
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