Its true that making GCJ tester code that will accommodate all differences and satisfy all participants is impossible to make. But evaluating English words(NO,IMPOSSIBLE,RED etc) which are in output in a case insensitive manner is not that difficult to implement. It may reduce number of wrong submissions at Qualifying rounds by new participants.
On May 30, 3:01 am, Lego Haryanto <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure why this can be a frustrating thing. I would probably be > frustrated if I had to work on the GCJ tester code that tries to > accomodate all those differences, yet will never be able to satisfy > all circumstances. From a few posts, it seems that GCJ system is > already nice enough to point out possible errors, but it certainly is > not worthwhile to do much more than that. > > The input/output specification is already very clear IMO and following > them as verbatim as we can be is our very first task, IMO. > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, May 23, 2011, vettukal <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the output > > > Case #45: NO > > is not equal to > > Case #45:No > > > Case #45: > > Impossible > > > is not equal to > > > Case #45: Impossible > > > This can lead to a very frustrating effort to debug the program when > > real bug is something this trivial. > > > The timer which tells how much time is left at the top of the page is > > small and not very visible. Please make it bigger and bolder. It would > > be nice if u add a timer at the bottom of the page coz most of the > > times we are seeing the sample input and output section of the page. > > > And as suggested earlier please make a link to our nickname which > > shows our email link. May be next time every contestant can have a > > (optional) profile page linked to his nickname. It may have his email > > id, his blog address (whatever he wants to put on that page.) > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- > Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) -- 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.
