Hello everyone,
In 2015, around one month after announcing the beginning of Educational Rounds, me and my friend SaMer prepared this contest inspired by the title "Educational Rounds".
In that contest, we tried to introduce SQRT-decomposition in a set of 5 problems, where each of the first three problems explained one part of the topic and asked to solve a small related task before moving to the next part. The last two problems were general problems that can be solved using SQRT-decomposition.
You may be able to create more interesting problems to present the subject, or make it easier to understand. Having more problems would help too, but I think you got the idea.
What do you think about having similar rounds? A possible format would be to have 3-6 problems explaining a subject, plus two or three problems that can be solved using it (they don't have to be classical).
Hi Hasan0540
It's nice idea. I supposed educational rounds will helds like this.
MikeMirzayanov and author of educational rounds should see this.
It's really a Nice idea.There should be a sperate education contest Based on complex topic like HLD,Centroid decmposition,Sufix tree for Each.That will be best Tutorial round :D
Of course, this is a very good idea, but at such rounds there will be people who will take full implementation from the Internet, while others will actually try to understand the topic. That is, it will affect their rating, which is not very cool.
Taking full implementation from internet is allowed by rules.
I don't think such contests can be rated.
Educational Rounds were not rated at the beginning, and these shouldn't be too.
But I don't think that implementation can be copied from the internet, maybe only for one direct problem like problem D, in the other problems you need to modify it so you need to understand it.
The problems should help you come up with your own implementation. If you check the contest mentioned in the blog, you won't find solutions for the first three problems online or for the last one. Even problem D can be replaced with a better one that is not available online.
So authors can write original problems that are not available online (and maybe give hints in the statements on how to solve / implement).