Freedom !

Its difficult for me to do something which I don't like but finally my examinations are over now and its time for programming. I hope we will do our best in our first ever ICPC regional on 7th Dec. Lets see what is there for us in Kharagpur.

I am free !

Time for a break

This week I participated in codeforces round and got a rank of 1030. I did a simple mistake and got wrong answer in the system testing.The mistake was that I initialized the variables in a wrong way. Rest everything was ok.  It was really very annoying when I got AC after re-initializing the variables just after the contest.

As end semester examinations are near I will be completely focusing on my studies now. Hard to leave programming but this is the need of the hour. After the exams a sudden burst of algorithmic coding will be coming in the form of ACM ICPC.Without wasting any day we need to practice as much as we can in the week just after our exams. Very much excited to see what happens in the on- site contest.

ICPC Drama

This time it was better.A lot better than before . I am talking about ICPC Kharagpur regionals.

We missed the original contest which was scheduled on Oct 18 due to our negligence but god gave us another chance and we took it .

We were having our lab during the contest hours and we decided to leave the lab 1 hour before to participate in the contest. Everything went well and we reached our hostel well before time.

I was having headache that day but still I wanted to help my team every possible way. I decided to give my 100%.

I went to Sudharsan's room around 10 minutes before the starting of the contest . He was having butterfly in his stomach . He was waiting for this contest desperately.

The clock ticked 6 and contest started. I opened a problem and found out that it was very easy.Without wasting time I started coding it meanwhile my friends opened different problems by the time I was debugging my code Sudharsan asked me if he should code my problem I said yes to him but I didn't stop coding and made the program before him . Then I called him to give some test cases and then submit . He gave around 15-20 test cases and it was working fine and we decided to submit it but there was a problem . I was logged out due to some reason and we were getting error "Access denied" it was so much frustrating.

Then I coded the same solution on his laptop to submit. I got compilation error due to mishandling the variable names (I used the same names I used in my original program :P ) This whole process costed us 10 more minutes but we got AC without any penalty. 

By this time we were 2nd in our college as the other team submitted the solution just 20 seconds before us.

Meanwhile Prajval (cool dude) came up with a solution to the second problem. We were so happy but I saw a basic flaw in the program I made a test case where his code was failing.We concluded that this problem is based on graphs . Sudharsan was practicing graphs specifically so he took the responsibility to code it . Meanwhile I was making test cases where our code may fail. After 50 minutes we were ready for our second submission. 

We got AC in our first go and that sealed our way to the Kharagpur regional.
We were ranked 126/440 teams and 43 out of 100 teams they have selected for the onsite.

We are now planning to go for Kharagpur regional . The onsite contest is on Dec 7 . Lets see what happens in the real arena.