Difficulty in finding editorials of practice problem on topcoder

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Can anyone provide a link where i can find the editorials of practice problems on topcoder?

Quora suggested this link: Topcoder Challenge Listings | Topcoder Community | Topcoder

but its saying “not permitted”

This link : SRM Editorials Archives - Topcoder

has editorials but the problem is that it shows the editorials for a particular contest(and i cant find which contest does a particular problem belong to)

Thank you in advance!!

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You don’t use topcoder arena? There you can directly practice from old SRM and that way you can check editorials from 2nd link.

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To access the first website, login on topcoder website i.e. not from that page. They post new editorials here. And for super old SRM, you can find their editorials here.

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Yeah i haven’t been on topcoder.

Yeah but i was thinking it would be much better if i could solve question based on their points (like only 300 pointers or so)

Is there a way to find which srm contest a problem belongs to in practie arena?

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You can go to old SRM and solve problems according to their points. Start with div2 1000 point as you are 6* here. Then if it’s easy move to div 1.

I created account on topcoder just 2-3 days before. The interface is confusing but i like that we don’t have to care about taking input and just implement the method.

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do u use the applet version or web version??

And which is more fast and convinient?

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I use their applet.

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I downloaded their applet version too.

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thanx @vijju123 @vbt_95

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Can anyone suggest any link of how do we download and use applet version?

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That is a struggle in itself :slight_smile:

And while installing, it may prompt that its not secure etc. and you may have to add it in ignore list of JAVA. The struggle awaits you :slight_smile:

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I downloaded this : ContestAppletProd.jnlp application

I had to put the site in exception list,after that it succesfully ran.

But when i now see in downloads folder this file no longer exists.

So my doubt now was how do i open it again(should i redownload it)?

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I still don’t know why it happens. So i copied the downloaded file to my local disk and run from there everytime.

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You sure it doesnt get deleted by something else? Eg- antivirus etc. ?

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thanx!!!