Codechef vs Codeforces

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FORCES? I mean no one is holding gun on you right?
its ur personal urge to learn thats the reason u r trying so hard
you had chance to leave those ques, submit someone’s soln or jst move on but u dont
so even if test cases were public you would not budge, would ya?
those test cases might actually help u to learn more
eg what if test cases had fault (extra spaces, weak test cases etc)
making test cases public wont hurt anyone with urge to learn but may help someone who is stuck

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well then dont see those test cases
obvio we dont want the feature where a pop up comes for every failed test case
in that case soln of other people shld not be public too
So acc to you following someone’s approach is fine but figuring out prob in ur approach which failed on only 1 test case by viewing test cases will result in discouragement toward thinking
It shld be on candidate to judge when he/she has reached their breaking pt
I know codechef will never make test cases public but still as everyone stated their pt
So did I

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You also waste a lot of time debugging, rather than learning new algorithms/data structures/math/tricks. Its a trade off and I’d prefer learning to solve more difficult problems than debug known ones.

Codeforces has a lot more balanced short contests. I prefer that for learning. I have learnt much more on Codeforces than Codechef. Also there are ample blogs with collection of nice problems for various topics on Codeforces, you can get several doubts solved, and discover new approaches in Codeforces blogs/comments. Codechef Discuss from what I have seen of it is a place for ppl to rant about things and how difficult life is.

Codeforces community is slightly more rude but that maintains quality in their posts.

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Huuuhh??:no_mouth: Rant about things ??? . We don’t rant here . We just help each other in the formus .

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Publishing data is a sign of progress!!!:imp::imp::imp:

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This was necessary to say . Thanks for maintaining the dignity of Codechef community.On the contrary, I would say that codeforces community is very rude and brutal, especially if guys with rating like <=1800 comment, post a doubt, ask anything, all they get is serious bashing and downvotes. How can someone learn like this…Thats a place where rich gets richer and poor get poorer… Though cf blogs on cp topics and problems are quite good. I only focus on them as the community is… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Guys problem EXAM1 of June cook-off has not been moved to practice. Someone please look into this matter.

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I think :thinking: sorting the problem will not help much if you are preparing for ACM-ICPC. ::slightly_smiling_face:

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Hey we might want collect codeforces traditions as well.

  1. Delay each contest at least by 15 mins (might go upto 30 mins as well). ( PS: last three div2 contests XD).
  2. Get negative reputation so easily XD.
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I did not get the fact that why do you want plagiarism check removed .

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And I don’t think he said so…

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I strongly disagree with point 1.
Every time I participate in Codechef Cook-Off I feel like I’m participating in a real onsite contest ( though i’m not using any hard copy of problem set) And as it’s not sorted in ascending order of difficulty, I’ve to take a look through the problem set to find the easiest one! It’s kinda thrilling to me! :smiley:
It’s a good practice for contests like ACM ICPC :slight_smile:

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and one contest went unrated because of weak test cases ;_;
Had answered the highest questions in that contest,ugh.

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Not weak test cases. Author tried to include a puzzle in competitive coding and his solution was incorrect LOL.
Thanks to him. My rank was 4000 XD

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Hahaha was that so, I thought my solution was incorrect but i couldn’t possibly see any other solution to it :frowning: :slight_smile:

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Where are you ? I can’t see you in HMC aka circuits :stuck_out_tongue:
Gennady also participated in HMC, only @l_returns is missing :stuck_out_tongue:

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Announcement says author’s solution couldn’t cover all cases. That means it was incorrect.

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I have participated. My handle is different.
Seq que and multiplication que are boring. And got 40 in xor path and haven’t solved challenge que. Rest are AC

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So what is your Handle ? :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

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All right!
Well can you tell me how to solve the Problem C of that contest?
I mean idk how to do a sliding window in O(n) time for that kind of question