Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Google India Code Jam
Thanks to my bay met, Vaibhav. I just happened to see the ad of Google India Code Jam in his monitor when he was browsing the Google India About page.
I immidietly jumped into the website to see it myself. I tried to register myself for the Competition.. Hurray.. I got an entry.. You might think what is there to be so exited in getting entry. There is reason for that too. Last year or the year before, I happened to see a similar advertisement in the newspaper for the Verizone Code Contest. I saw it in the morning and when I tried to register for that after coming to the office at 9 am, It said "Oops sorry. The entry for 500 persons is closed".
So this time I am atleast getting a chance to look into the Coding exams.. :-)
There is more about that. After logging in, I tried with the problems in the Practice Area.
There were two problems - 1st with 400 points and the 2nd with 1000 points.
Since it was late that day, I took the printout of those problems and tried to solve it in my house. Man, what questions are those???? I am still not able to understand the first problem and the second one I think the question is not clearly stated. I tried the whole night that day, but I couldn't figure out how the example 1 is solved.
I went to sleep at early morning, still thining "how the hell did he get that answer?"
I will try to solve the next day atleast. !!!
I immidietly jumped into the website to see it myself. I tried to register myself for the Competition.. Hurray.. I got an entry.. You might think what is there to be so exited in getting entry. There is reason for that too. Last year or the year before, I happened to see a similar advertisement in the newspaper for the Verizone Code Contest. I saw it in the morning and when I tried to register for that after coming to the office at 9 am, It said "Oops sorry. The entry for 500 persons is closed".
So this time I am atleast getting a chance to look into the Coding exams.. :-)
There is more about that. After logging in, I tried with the problems in the Practice Area.
There were two problems - 1st with 400 points and the 2nd with 1000 points.
Since it was late that day, I took the printout of those problems and tried to solve it in my house. Man, what questions are those???? I am still not able to understand the first problem and the second one I think the question is not clearly stated. I tried the whole night that day, but I couldn't figure out how the example 1 is solved.
I went to sleep at early morning, still thining "how the hell did he get that answer?"
I will try to solve the next day atleast. !!!
