31 Jan 2007 fzort   » (Journeyer)

Google Code Jam, Round 1

My performance was dismal. I did the easy problem, then moved straight to the hard one. Then I threw away 20 minutes because I jumped straight to the code before understanding completely the problem statement and then had to start all over again, wasted another 20 minutes tracking down a stupid off-by-one bug, panicked for about 5 minutes, and finally ended up submitting a /wrong/ solution. Guess I need to work on the think-crush-under-pressure thing.

What makes it so frustrating is that the problem was not really that hard, and I was able to concoct a correct solution (here) without major difficulties afterwards, when the time pressure was gone.

Gah.

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