Today, was my first attempt at IEEEXtreme. although it wasn't the real worldwide 24 houred IEEEXtreme ... However, it was a simulation in our college for the big day. The competition was held by IEEE CUSB Computer Club team, as I was a competitor, I couldn't join the organization of the event.
Local xtreme was 7 problems that varied in strength, in one of the faculty computer labs, and our most favorite online judge "Mooshak". (: D) Some problems were easy, however, dear mooshak kept insisting that we missed a test case. Some were moderate, others need much optimization. And finally our dear graphs. Never thought of actually trying to solve it.
My team was supposed to have included Omar Abou El-Khir <3rd year Computer Engineering, CUFE> and Mahmoud Hosny <2nd year Computer Engineering, CUFE>, unfortunately due to some circumstances only me and Hosny managed to come. We managed to solve 3 problems correctly out of 7. Then we tried on another 3, one of which we went to calculate numbers out of boundaries of of C++ containers like int and long long. I tried to convince them that Python could calculate such numbers, however, Moohsak doesn't support that language. :( Hosny, did suggest having an array of 1 billion element to try and solve, and showed some frustration as mooshak stated "Memory Limit Exceeded". Yeah, we were that desperate!! :D
It was a great experience, not the best though but atleast was a little fruitful ... Now we should begin to train ourselves for the big IEEEXtreme, hopefully, with Omar back to the team, while doing our best. Hopefully, we can achieve a good result.
For those who don't know IEEEXtreme, it's a 24-houred online coding competition, held worldwide at the same time. It contains 17 problem, that varies in strength.
I guess that's all for now, see you later ... I hope you enjoyed reading.
Local xtreme was 7 problems that varied in strength, in one of the faculty computer labs, and our most favorite online judge "Mooshak". (: D) Some problems were easy, however, dear mooshak kept insisting that we missed a test case. Some were moderate, others need much optimization. And finally our dear graphs. Never thought of actually trying to solve it.
My team was supposed to have included Omar Abou El-Khir <3rd year Computer Engineering, CUFE> and Mahmoud Hosny <2nd year Computer Engineering, CUFE>, unfortunately due to some circumstances only me and Hosny managed to come. We managed to solve 3 problems correctly out of 7. Then we tried on another 3, one of which we went to calculate numbers out of boundaries of of C++ containers like int and long long. I tried to convince them that Python could calculate such numbers, however, Moohsak doesn't support that language. :( Hosny, did suggest having an array of 1 billion element to try and solve, and showed some frustration as mooshak stated "Memory Limit Exceeded". Yeah, we were that desperate!! :D
It was a great experience, not the best though but atleast was a little fruitful ... Now we should begin to train ourselves for the big IEEEXtreme, hopefully, with Omar back to the team, while doing our best. Hopefully, we can achieve a good result.
For those who don't know IEEEXtreme, it's a 24-houred online coding competition, held worldwide at the same time. It contains 17 problem, that varies in strength.
I guess that's all for now, see you later ... I hope you enjoyed reading.
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