I can see what you're saying about having a warning, but I have to say I think Google Code Jam is by far the best contest I've participated in with regards to having straightforward problems.
I used to do topcoder before I met Python, and the problems would often be about whether I realized some weird edge case they craftily snuck into the problem, rather than finding an elegant solution, and with bad test data specifically designed to not have any coverage. I have found it to be quite different in Code Jam - the problems are straightforward and the edge-cases obvious from the problem description, furthermore the example cases are simple, yet effective at catching silly formatting errors, etc. Good job Google! On Sep 14, 12:42 am, Blub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I really like this contest, well done Google! Unfortunately I did > not make enough points to advance to round 2. > > What is the idea behind not being allowed to resubmit the large > problems, once the eight minutes are over? Is it to reject code > that runs for a longer time or to prevent in-depth (human) > analysis of the input files? I submitted a wrong solution for the > large problem of Round 1C 'All your Bases', and lost those 15 > points for sure. Having the correct solution later on did not > help. (The final code I submitted for the small problem solves the > large problem as well). > > Anyway, I was just stupid and probably too nervous. I mistakenly > though I solved the small problem correctly, when I still had a > small bug. Maybe it would be a good idea to issue a warning, when > you try to solve a large problem without successfully solving the > corresponding small problem first. > > Cheers, -Blub --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
