Hi Ransara, I'll answer your questions as good as I can. However, I'd prefer you ask trough GCJ's maillist (I'll add it as CC here) or TopCoder's forums next time, that would allow more people with the same doubts to also benefit from the answers.
1. TCO is having many competitions, i hope you are referring to TCO's > Algorithm competition ? Yes, mostly the Algorithm track as that's what's most similar. Although the Marathon Match track is also very interesting to me, and I guess many people like the other tracks as well, learning and participating is always good :-). 2. Is there any place that i can practice TCO competition ? > 3. Still i couldn't find where to upload my files and how to have input > files. Any idea ? Go to http://topcoder.com/tc, that's top coder's competition page. In there, in the top left area, is an "O(n)" icon, right next to a "Home" icon, the tool tip says "Algorithm Competitions". If you click there it will either open a pop up or download a file, can't remember exactly, however, at some point you should be able to find something like "Launch arena" or something similar. It's a Java Web Start application, so you need at least a Java JRE. That application, called the arena, will be the place to practice and compete. It has a menu bar, one of them called "Practice Rooms" with all old contests and an "Active Contests" which you will use during real contests, like this Saturday. 4. Any other useful information for me regarding TCO competition ? Practice, practice and practice as much as you can, although that's not TCO specific. Also, I recommend checking the rules and formats because it's slightly tricky, most importantly, you will not know if your algorithm is correct or not (and have no feedback at all) until after the coding phase ends. That's quite different than most contests, specially the ACM ICPC contests. Good luck, Carlos Guía On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Ransara Wijethunga <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > I saw that you have posted some information on GCJ regarding TCO > competition similar to that. > I'm having few questions and can you please answer me. > > 1. TCO is having many competitions, i hope you are referring to TCO's > Algorithm competition ? > > 2. Is there any place that i can practice TCO competition ? > > 3. Still i couldn't find where to upload my files and how to have input > files. Any idea ? > > 4. Any other useful information for me regarding TCO competition ? > > Thanking you in advance, > Ransara > -- > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ransara > http://ransara.blogspot.com > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
