The 2 hr 30 min is the duration of the contest. That start at a fixed time and ends accordingly. If you want to participate, you need to paticipate in this time window.
The other timer is related to the time needed to submit the solution once you download input. For this, the timer starts as soon as you download the input. What you need to do is read the question, get a program ready, download input (hence starting timer), run the program with input, submit solution before timer ends. If it ended, for small inputs, you will have more chances .. but for large inputs, there are no second chances (time expired => you cannot submit at all) On 17 April 2010 14:48, tonka <[email protected]> wrote: > i am all new to gcj. so as i was going through the rules i found that > they said that reading the problem didn't start any timer whereas > downloading the inputs did. but then the 2hr30min alloted for round 1 > and so on are for downloading inputs and submitting outputs or is it > the total time in which i have to read the question and solve it (i.e. > development of algorithm and the code)? please help. > thanks in advance. > > On Apr 14, 6:32 am, Bartholomew Furrow <[email protected]> wrote: >> Procedure is here:http://code.google.com/codejam/faq.html#quickstart >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Gökhan Çetin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > sample questions here mate >> >http://code.google.com/codejam/archive.html >> >> > 2010/4/12 Vineet ghatge <[email protected]> >> >> > Hi all, >> >> >> I am very new to this google code jam. Can anyone tell me procedure and >> >> sample questions(codes) to look through? >> >> >> Looking forward for a reply >> >> >> With Regards, >> >> Vineet Ghatge H >> >> -- >> >> 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]<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegr >> >> oups.com> >> >> . >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> >> > -- >> > G.Ç >> >> > -- >> > 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]<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegr >> > oups.com> >> > . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> >http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
