We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters132, this Wednesday, 1st May, rated for till 6-Stars(ie. for users with rating < 2500).
Time: 8:00 PM — 10:00 PM IST
Joining us on the problem setting panel are:
- Setters: Yash yash_daga Daga, Akash akashh_chauhann Chauhan, Nishu NishuOne8 Sharma,Souradeep Paul,Prajwal procodgok Singh,wuhudsm wuhudsm, Shubham shubhamgrg1000 Garg .
- Tester: Shreyan Dominater069 Ray.
Text Editorialists:Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh.
Statement Verifier: Kanhaiya notsoloud1 Mohan.
Contest Admin : Yash yash_daga Daga.
Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest. The video editorials of the problems will be available only to Pro users.
Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here. Hope to see you participating.
Good Luck!
My solution discussion stream
C++23 when
In problem RANDOM_ARRAY, at first i thought the statement "Chef will pick the first element randomly from any of the arrays." means we can only take first element of each array and coincidentally the first 3 examples of sample testcase will give correct answer for this, finally realized my stupid mistake after 20 minutes of debugging.
Anyways, nice problemset today.I solved 5 problems and the best part was all problems had fairly easy implementation.
I also solved 5, but felt like the quality was noticeably lower than previous Starters. All the problems came trivially and I ended up wasting most of my time on implementation errors instead of the actual thinking.
Not sure about 6th and 7th problem but Div 1 A-E were just way too standard for a contest of this type.
Codechef needs to make some changes in its contest-making policies. Why do I think so?
Last one was on Jan 3.
And many more recent rounds were unbalanced/standard.