Re: [gcj] Activity going down
Good luck getting to Round 3! About the 'messier' problems. I just wanted to say that I believe CodeJam does have a very quirky style when it comes to creating problems, and I love it. I haven't ever entered TopCoder things because in comparison they seem so dry and boring. Maybe I am too harsh on TopCoder, but all I Wanted to say was that Google's problem setting style is a real boon - I love it! Paul Paul Smith p...@pollyandpaul.co.uk On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Stanislav Zholnin stanislav.zhol...@gmail.com wrote: All massive rounds are gone and activity in this forum goes to sleep till next year... I am still to participate in Round 2, but mainly for statistics :) - It would take a lot of luck to get through to Round 3. On the positive side - I finally started doing rounds at Topcoder and Codeforces, and in the middle of transition from Python to C++. So next year I should be much better prepared. On a side note, I also noticed some change to the style of problems (I saw already such discussions on forums). I can't figure out exactly what is different - I just have word messier, but there were messy problems before. I am wondering if this is actually some noticeable change in Codejam Team (need to check authors from this and previous years, after all editorials are up). And competition I felt was more fierce this year then the last, though I think that it is the same story every year, as Codejam still gains momentum. I also think that in some way 25 people on-site finals are ridiculously small (even Russian Code Cup has 50 people, though it is smaller and their sponsor is apparently smaller then Google). But even if it gets to 100 people I am still unlikely to ever participate - so I don't care. Still, at the very top of any sports chance also becomes very significant factor - meaning that when you have 100 people competing at very-very high level actual 25 best will depend more on luck, then on skill. So this might be argument for increasing on-site finals count. Also I'd like to thank organizers. Especially for inclusiveness of all languages - world outside of Codejam is much tougher on languages like Python. Hope you are not going to kill as with Round 2 problems. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/414598c4-e325-4736-bbb2-efb4e51d6638%40googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAJej63J987MqeM%2Bvjjn_AzgNPuyVPoJ-Q-LKiO7ESEeyzsA8yQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [gcj] Activity going down
This. Sent from my iPad On 15 May 2014, at 09:47, Paul Smith p...@pollyandpaul.co.uk wrote: Good luck getting to Round 3! About the 'messier' problems. I just wanted to say that I believe CodeJam does have a very quirky style when it comes to creating problems, and I love it. I haven't ever entered TopCoder things because in comparison they seem so dry and boring. Maybe I am too harsh on TopCoder, but all I Wanted to say was that Google's problem setting style is a real boon - I love it! Paul Paul Smith p...@pollyandpaul.co.uk On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Stanislav Zholnin stanislav.zhol...@gmail.com wrote: All massive rounds are gone and activity in this forum goes to sleep till next year... I am still to participate in Round 2, but mainly for statistics :) - It would take a lot of luck to get through to Round 3. On the positive side - I finally started doing rounds at Topcoder and Codeforces, and in the middle of transition from Python to C++. So next year I should be much better prepared. On a side note, I also noticed some change to the style of problems (I saw already such discussions on forums). I can't figure out exactly what is different - I just have word messier, but there were messy problems before. I am wondering if this is actually some noticeable change in Codejam Team (need to check authors from this and previous years, after all editorials are up). And competition I felt was more fierce this year then the last, though I think that it is the same story every year, as Codejam still gains momentum. I also think that in some way 25 people on-site finals are ridiculously small (even Russian Code Cup has 50 people, though it is smaller and their sponsor is apparently smaller then Google). But even if it gets to 100 people I am still unlikely to ever participate - so I don't care. Still, at the very top of any sports chance also becomes very significant factor - meaning that when you have 100 people competing at very-very high level actual 25 best will depend more on luck, then on skill. So this might be argument for increasing on-site finals count. Also I'd like to thank organizers. Especially for inclusiveness of all languages - world outside of Codejam is much tougher on languages like Python. Hope you are not going to kill as with Round 2 problems. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/414598c4-e325-4736-bbb2-efb4e51d6638%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAJej63J987MqeM%2Bvjjn_AzgNPuyVPoJ-Q-LKiO7ESEeyzsA8yQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/42703D07-4F43-4CB9-8A49-CE334A3C474D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gcj] Activity going down
All massive rounds are gone and activity in this forum goes to sleep till next year... I am still to participate in Round 2, but mainly for statistics :) - It would take a lot of luck to get through to Round 3. On the positive side - I finally started doing rounds at Topcoder and Codeforces, and in the middle of transition from Python to C++. So next year I should be much better prepared. On a side note, I also noticed some change to the style of problems (I saw already such discussions on forums). I can't figure out exactly what is different - I just have word messier, but there were messy problems before. I am wondering if this is actually some noticeable change in Codejam Team (need to check authors from this and previous years, after all editorials are up). And competition I felt was more fierce this year then the last, though I think that it is the same story every year, as Codejam still gains momentum. I also think that in some way 25 people on-site finals are ridiculously small (even Russian Code Cup has 50 people, though it is smaller and their sponsor is apparently smaller then Google). But even if it gets to 100 people I am still unlikely to ever participate - so I don't care. Still, at the very top of any sports chance also becomes very significant factor - meaning that when you have 100 people competing at very-very high level actual 25 best will depend more on luck, then on skill. So this might be argument for increasing on-site finals count. Also I'd like to thank organizers. Especially for inclusiveness of all languages - world outside of Codejam is much tougher on languages like Python. Hope you are not going to kill as with Round 2 problems. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/414598c4-e325-4736-bbb2-efb4e51d6638%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
