Google Kickstart 2020 - Round F

Today, I participated in the competitive programming event, Google Kickstart, in their round F. Whilst this competitional format is something I'm not generally used to, the experience was invaluable and I gained a much stronger insight into the importance of data structures and algorithms to what I had previously. In this competitional format, we were given 4 questions and around 3 hours to solve them. Whilst I didn't get close to winning, from this kickstart competition I learned quite a lot in regards to competitive programming as well as data structures and algorithms and has, as a result, inspired me to practice more to compete in future programming events.