This is my first time trying this. Ran through several practice drills, but the real contest proved to be quite a different animal. First my version of Firefox still can't login. I didn't think it was a big deal because I used a Windows system to register and the practice drill worked out OK, but the first thing I discovered with the qualification round was that I wasn't logged in and couldn't get the input downloads :(
Quickly switched to Konqueror where I could login. Downloaded input files successfully, ran my program and tried to upload answers, only to find that the upload dialogs weren't working. Running out of options, I tried downloading Opera, which thankfully worked successfully. And found that each of my failed uploads had been counted as an incorrect solution :( All of this would have been fatal in a real round, the qualification round gave me a chance to work out the problems. The problems themselves were fairly easy. A was trivial, B took some coding, C would have been a show stopper if I hadn't looked up how to solve the 2008 Increasing Speed Limit problem. The technique they used there made the C problem fairly easy. Alas, I didn't get credit for B. I checked my code more times than I can count, and read the problem statement 4 times, and still missread the preferred direction list as N-W-S-E. It's certainly been fun, looking forward to next round. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
