Hey Satyajit, thank you for your nice words. To be honest something very similar happened to me, but my liking for Ruby out did my want to go back to java. :). I have 5 years of Java behind me and only 4 months of Ruby, but since I was so easily able to solve problem A, I was tempted to do the same for other problems, but I struggled with trying my way around a 3D array that I created, of course my solution was wrong and perhaps a bit too complex, but I struggled more on array traversal initially, then on trying to fit the recursive logic.
I've tried to study and understand the solutions of the top coders, but I fail miserably in understanding anything concrete from them. Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar. Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Satyajit Malugu <[email protected]>wrote: > Ken:I guess most of the programmers that do in C/C++ learned it in school > and did several years in them. Books like Ritch & Kenni etc would be their > best friends. > > They are so experienced that they can program without exceptions and stuff > that we are used to in our day to day programming (at software companies). > > But yeah, I've seen top 5-6 contestants all of them used cpp. And no > regex's. Also, can you tell me your position so that I can see your code? > > Dhruv: I tried Ruby and regex's but failed miserably. Apparently we > shouldn't venture a new programming language for the contest ;) So shifted > back to java and normal string parsing and was able to solve. > Though many have done it, I still congratulate you on finding a regex > solution. Kudos > > Can any explain what the meaning of %10000 and 2D cache in the third > problem that all the contestants used? I think I missed that big time and > hence couldn't solve it though i got the recursive idea. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
