One way to do it may be something like this-
Write a client program in Java or C++ (or in any other suitable
language), which will be downloaded by the contestants, before the
contest begins and kept ready to run during the contest. It will
require only the problem number as input; then it
Heh SRM was just starting so I left a thought incomplete. I mean, it
is annoying because you have to spend time messing with your web
browser's file dialogs a lot, and then you have to use pipes to read
input and then there is always the possibility that you upload the
wrong output...
A large amount of those 1+ used C++, Java, python or C#, the
languages offered in TC codejam. I don't think the other languages
really increased participation that much. I just wish go-hero would
have overall statistics because getting them individually for each
round is not that useful in
Heh SRM was just starting so I left a thought incomplete. I mean, it
is annoying because you have to spend time messing with your web
browser's file dialogs a lot, and then you have to use pipes to read
input and then there is always the possibility that you upload the
wrong output...
On Apr 20,
I partially agree, I don't love the data driven part and will have a stroke
sometime worrying about if I sent the correct output/solution, and the
challenge phase in TC is great. On the other hand, I really love the
small/large format in the new GCJ, it gives a chance to have a different
strategy
TopCoder still offers the TopCoder Open and Single Round Matches, so
that format is still alive. On the other hand, GCJ's new format is a
refreshing one, giving us some diversity over a year's course. Moreover, I
don't think more people would participate, currently there are about 6600
active
