Saturday, September 7, 2013

What is Codathon

Apologies to anyone who gave the CODATHON Manipal competition due to my blog.
It is a very badly implemented system, difficult to navigate through.
Sometimes the code that has been pre-written to edit in, contains more errors, and I probably spent most of the first day's time looking for a fault in my code, while it was actually in theirs.
Questions are below the par, and the acceptance is probably at random, as the same code gets accepted sometimes and sometimes not.
Also if you lose connection in between and refresh, you lose all your progress for that attempt.

After this farce, Manipal should realize that, unless you know how to conduct a competition, and have people dedicated to it, you shouldn't actually try to run one.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Codechef first top 10

Woah!!!
Achieved my first top 10 in Codechef competition.
The competition was Clash Credenz 2013 http://www.codechef.com/CLASH13/
The three problems solved by me were 
1.BALANCE IT OUT(just a case of precomputation)
2.THE AMAZING RACE (more of a logical question than much hard). You have to recognize the numbers closest to the middle. 
3.SNYDER MAN (A pure maths application). Though seriously speaking the logic I developed was taken to be wrong by both me and my roommate, but surprisingly it worked. Just make a equation of the final height, and you are done. 
4. Sadly though missed on MUSIC MAN by a single error in my logic. :-(

Well the next two competitions fast approaching are:
Both start on 6th September 2013

Best of luck to all who participate :-) \m/