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by lentil_soup 582 days ago
Not OP but yeah, they mean to work your way through the problems there and yes most "normal" languages are fine, python, js, C, java, etc.

In my experience they won't just give you an URL, it'll just be a problem in the style of the ones there. Thing is, once you've done a few of them you'll see that there's only a set of algorithms that usually apply. The setting and input will vary but in the end you can reduce it to a known algorithm or technic so it's more about finding which one fits and can solve the problem