I am a newbie . Can someone help me to give their TLE Prime acc with me ? I am competitive we both can grow together. I have a rating of nearly 1100 but I need that course to improve myself and mainly practice the problem sets. Please do tell me if anyone of you agrees. We can contact further.

Hi a bit background of mine , I m in btech 1st sem 2.5 month since clg started didnt know any programming back home literal zero . I started doing cp recently now i can do basic till 1000 rating question on codechef .merese TLE 31 ke sawal nhi bn 800 wale can i use ai in the beginning ya bilkul use nhi krna chahiye

Any better solutions for it

Like every other day, we have again got a news about a planned layoffs/ restructuring in a big organisation, I am not even going to talk about the specific news. I have come on the conclusion that days will pass on and such news will keep on coming again and again. I have even stopped reacting to these news nowadays no matter how big the number of impact is. Many of us do cp for the love of game and as a hobby, but alongwith hobby, importance of cp for getting a job also cant be neglected, if their are no jobs, what is the point of even doing cp, nobody aint doing cp lifelong just as hobby if he/ she has no money to support his/ her family.

What are your views on AI replacing SWE jobs in future? I want to know what does the smartest folks in computer science think about this.

From what I understand, ICPC India has said that teams suspected of plagiarism may be asked to solve two problems of a similar difficulty level to those they solved during the online preliminary contest. meanwhile, the final ranklist is scheduled to be released on 30th

I'm confused about how these two things fit together, and I wanted to understand the process from people who might know more about it.

1. Have the retest emails already been sent? Have only teams suspected of plagiarism been contacted, or are they still reviewing submissions and contacting teams?
2. When will the retests happen? If some teams still need to solve two problems under supervision, will these retests take place before October 30?
3. What happens if the final ranklist is released before the retests? Would the October 30 list be provisional, with changes made later depending on the retest results?
4. What if a team passes the retest? Would they retain their original rank and eligibility, or would their preliminary performance be evaluated again?
5. What exactly does “final ranklist” mean in this situation? If teams can still be disqualified or cleared after October 30, will there be another updated list?

I'm not trying to speculate about any particular team. I just want to understand the timeline and selection process, since the ranklist determines which teams qualify for the regionals.

Microsoft, Qualcomm and Barclays doing layoffs over the globe (do you know other companies such?).

With all these dynamics, how we are going to sustain this tech industry .

Should we be cautious abt this or chill ?

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Yeah the title is pretty self-explanatory. Which semester of btech is IDEAL to start codeforces??

How did you approached question 4 tree

Plz guide me

LeetCode has had home screen widgets for years. Codeforces doesn't, so I built one.

It shows your rating and rank in the actual rank colour, solved count and streak, a submission heatmap, and the next contest with a countdown. Small, medium and lock screen sizes.

No login, no API key, just the public API.

The annoying part was the solved count. There's no endpoint for it, so you have to pull submissions and de-dupe them. A full history is about 3.4MB, which is fine in the app and way too much for a widget extension. So the app does the big scan once and writes a small snapshot into an App Group, and the widget only refreshes around 1,200 submissions when the cache goes stale.

Caveat: I'm not paying for the developer program, so there's no App Store or TestFlight build. It's MIT and on GitHub. Clone it, run Tools/setup.sh, build in Xcode with your free Apple ID. Those expire every 7 days, so there's a renew.sh that rebuilds and reinstalls in one command.

github.com/VanshKharb/homejudge

Happy to hear what's missing or broken.

Same as the title says. A total of 5500 teams participated. Say 50% teams applied to 1 and 50% applied to 2 regions.

Total money in entry fees: 5500 * 1500 * 1.5 = 1,23,75,000

Even if they pay problem setters 50K per problem and some hosting charges, where is the most of the money going?

And it's not like regionals are free. 4500 per team extra is having to be paid to go there.

Changing the Amrita cutoff - to include more colleges just seems to be like a money making prospect rather than spreading the love cp.

I am not saying we have a problems with paying the entry fees. I am saying, if I am paying so much, I should get the returns on that. They did not even have good proctoring.

Honestly we are a team ranked in top 200 in icpc, and this is genuinely disappointing.

ICPC Amritapuri criteria during registration phase:

ICPC Amritapuri criteria now:

According to the old criteria, teams beyond 200 get selected one per college. As per the new criteria, one team beyond 140 per college which has no team in top 140.

The criteria changed well after the contest. Our colleges ranking are like this:
Team #1: top 20
Team #2: top 100
Team #3: top 200 (us)

2 criteria were changed. If either of the two was not changed, we would have qualified. Any suggestions about what can be done here? We have asked our coach to send an email to Amritaicpc officials. Anything else can be done?

Rant: They cannot change the rules like they want after the regional happens. Our college being a very competitive one, we think we plan and split regions among ourselves. Now due to them changing the criteria, we are losing the chance to go to Amritapuri.

So I am a newbie(rating around 1k) and in today's contest I was only able to solve A. Not like I didn't understand B and C. I got the question....and also came up with the algo for both B and C...but wasn't able to handle edge cases and hence it failed. Specially in q2...where i made long ass cases and did dry run and my code was giving correct output...but on submitting it was giving wrong answer and of course during contest we can't see on what TC it is failing. And after contest when i checked...the test case was pretty lame...and after seeing test case i submitted my code within 10 minutes and it passed all cases.

So yeah...please guide me how to like think of edge cases during contest. The sh*t was genuinely frustrating.

Been like 1.5 years since i have been doing cf and have been stuck around 1100 rating. I have solved around 450 questions(no I don't practice 800-900 rated) , i practice mostly 1200-1400 questions. Issue with me is I am able to come up with most of the solution but like my thoughts get kind of messy and i mess up in some place or the other, maybe read question wrong or like make a dumb silly logical mistake. Sometimes I am able to solve hard questions easily sometimes easy questions I get stuck. Don't know if I should continue

I'm seriously crying rn😭😭😭I ain't built for this shit, I will just become a zepto delivery guy atp.....

How to persuade ourselves, that we would get better with time and more exposure in the cp journey

as initially it is hard to make believe that we would get better with constant effort and stuff

Any psychological hacks anol?

I genuinely hope that today's problem setters go through so much rough and bad things and hardships that they spend their entire days crying and question their existence.

Really, they deserve the worst punishment. I curse them from the bottom of my virtues

are these questions actually supposed to be this hard to understand or is my iq really that low. this feels so goddamn hard man, i havent even solved A yet T_T

Probably can't even solve one ... doomed :)

How many of u guys didnt receive this mail, comment, icpc