Ups and downs again .

This week was not very good but still I learned a lot . Not very good because I didn't rise up in terms of ratings and scores but good as I still learned may new things , things which can only be learnt through failures after all a monotonously increasing graph is really 'monotonous' .

1. I couldn't solve a single question in the Codechef's long contest .(I just can't believe it,I think I didn't try much harder).
2. My last 2 matches on codeforces were not so good as my rating decreased heavily .
But at the end of the week.
My team got selected for Codesprint contest (National contest) and we solved all the questions given and in that I played a major role in solving 2 toughest questions(only 1 was a little bit trickier the other was easy).

Life is so much funny, sometimes you fall down sometimes you rise like anything.

I care less for results and more for actual learning because results are the outputs and if you don't give some input how will you get output ?

My mid semester Examinations are coming next week . So, I'll be taking a short break from programming because academics are also necessary .

Thanks for reading . Keep learning . Keep coding . 

One more great week !

This week was very good in terms of my ratings in the various online contests. 

For the first time I solved 3 Div 2 problems in a codeforces round and now I am at my all time highest rating of 1457 . I solved a question in SRM also and now my rating is above my past 4 months record . 

We solved 1 question in TCS codevita too .  

Today I solved a problem in Codechef's Lunchtime too.

This weekend I was developing a GUI in python using tkinter . I made a simple quiz with some options as buttons on it .Clicking on the buttons displays comment(Label) on your selection in a funny manner . I'll add some more features to it in the coming weeks .  

We are planning to take part in ICPC online rounds as the first team from our college . Lets see what we'll be able to do . 

Thanks for reading . 

In love with codes

These days I am truly enjoying programming . Learning new & exciting techniques/algorithms .

Now,I've started challenging  my friends to see who is better at competitive programming . This week I participated in codeforces Div2 round and solved 1 problem but I lost to my friend Sudharsan who got it correct in first go and that too within 14 minutes , that's very impressive start but I don't like to lose much and I'll come back strong .

These days I am solving problems on codeforces .

Surprisingly we(me & Sudharsan) got selected for round 2 of TCS coding contest and will try to best in the second round as we couldn't do well in our first round .

Last night I was solving a problem which required factors of a no. to be calculated first . I was thinking of searching the method on the net but then I decided that I'll try it out myself first . I came with an idea and it worked

Suppose we want to calculate factors of N (including 1 & N itself)
for(i=1;i<=sqrt(N);i++)
{
     if(i*(N/i)==N)
    {  
        printf("%d",i);
        if(i!=N/i)
        printf("%d",i);
     }
}
This will print all the factors of N . If statement is included to avoid repetition of 1 if we write N = 1.

Today I've challenged my friends in Codechef's Cook off . Lets see who wins . Waiting for the round to commence .

Thanks for reading and keep coding .

Nice week

This week was very informative and a good one as I learned a lot .
I participated in TCS's Codevita contest with my friend and we solved 2/7 questions . We should have solved at least 4 but somehow due to lack of coordination among us(this was our first ever team contest) we could solve just 2 .

I solved 2 question in Codeforces weekly contest and now I am again a 'specialist' after a long time .(I know I am not :P )

I successfully solved Div 2 250 for 212 points in this week's SRM on TC and now my rating is 480 in 10 contests . I know its not good but still better than before .

This week I learned the implementation of Longest Common Subsequence and Longest Increasing Subsequence .

Thanks for reading and keep coding !