What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?

Leetcode Mediums

Practicing Scales

“What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?” is a fabulous question asked by Tyler Cowen (no relation). I’m not a musician, I don’t really understand the mechanical benefits of playing scales.

But I think part of it is practicing isolated fundamentals. There’s no nonsense. No trying to figure out which note comes next. Just play the next note.

Leetcode Medium

Leetcode Mediums allows practicing the fundamentals. Solving medium level problems require small programs of 5-100 lines without nonsense. No worrying about libraries, testing, or centering divs. Easy problems are usually one liners (not bad for language trivia!) and hard problems usually involve algorithms unused in daily code or “clever tricks” which also rarely comes up in daily code.

If you have a different way of practicing scales as a programmer, post below or send me a …