TopCoder is a great platform with a huge set of programming problems ready to challenge you. However, if you look at a problem and you only validate it using the examples provided in the description you are not doing it right. In fact, when you compete, you get zero point even if a single test of […]
Continue readingProblem Name Competition Difficulty ListeningSongs SRM 679 Easy Solution Full source code is available here. I found this problem a bit more involved in terms of coding for an easy problem. Lucky with LINQ the code is relatively compact but I think people competing with other languages could have find it a bit long. From the […]
Continue readingProblem Name Competition Difficulty AttackOfTheClones SRM 678 Medium Analysis Full source code is available here. This problem is quite interesting! It is immediately clear that the number of possible combinations is so high that the solution must use a sort of greedy algorithm. A brute force approach to identify all possible sequences is impractical. However, if given a […]
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