On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 4:30:11 PM UTC, Anil M wrote: > Thanks everyone for the input, I think I should get all contestants and who > solved what, hopefully majority of them used same username over the years. > Once I have all the data if I have anymore questions I will get back. Tagging > each problem based on Type, like Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory looks like > an interesting idea, Anyone know how to tag all problems without solving > them? I'm guessing I should solve all to tag all problems.
There's a few problems with tagging: (1) You can't tag a problem unless you know how to solve it. For most contestant that means actually solving the problem. (This doesn't count to me though, as I always commit silly wrong-bounds errors or off-by-1 errors.) (2) After someone tag a problem it becomes easier than it was without the tag. For example, a problem in DP is hard exactly because you don't know that DP is possible. If I see the DP tag there I would have needed only a half of the normal time I needed to solve the problem. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/322b2b9e-7ff7-4569-ad42-acf2ae655284%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
