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What language is the best choice in programming contests and why?
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If you had to design a study program, with a breadth-of-programming-languages requirement, which stated that the student should be exposed to all major concepts and methodologies that can be taught through (at the minimum) 6 programming languages, which programming languages would you choose to teach…
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(Since I just posted this in another question, but my browser had to be annoying and submit it without content first, here it is again:)
I'm a fan of clean code. I like my languages to be able to express what I'm trying to do, but I like the syntax to mirror that too.
For example, I work on a lot…
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Hi folks,
I am going to develop a facebook game as topic for my thesis.
I am wondering which programming languages i should choice.
I am used to programming in .NET. But i am also comfortable in C++ and Java.
I don't want to use Flash as the graphical frontend since i don't like it.
So i guess…
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Are there any objective measures for measuring the power of programming languages? Turing-completeness is one, but it is not particularly discriminating. I also remember there being a few others measures of power which are more limited versions (like finite-state-autonoma), but is there any objective…
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I'm a fan of clean code.
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Basically, I want to make a great reference for use with programming contests that would have all of the algorithms that I can put together that I would need during a contest as well as sample useage for the code. I'm planning on making this into a sort of book that I could print off and take with…
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Hi,
An example question for a programming contest was to write a program that finds out how much polyominos are possible with a given number of stones.
So for two stones (n = 2) there is only one polyominos:
XX
You might think this is a second solution:
X
X
But it isn't. The polyominos are…
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I've attended a local programming contest on my country. The name of the contest is "ACM-ICPC Indonesia National Contest 2013".
The contest has ended on 2013-10-13 15:00:00 (GMT +7) and I am still curious about one of the problems.
You can find the original version of the problem here.
Brief Problem…
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I recently took part in Codesprint2. I was unable to submit the solution to the following question.
http://www.spoj.pl/problems/COINTOSS/
( I have posted the link to the problem statement at spoj because the codesprint link requires login )
I checked out one of the successful solutions, ( url : http://pastebin…
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I have a programming contest coming up in about half a week, and I've been prepping :)
I found a bunch of questions from this canadian competition, they're great practice:
http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/contests/computing/2009/stage2/day1.pdf
I'm looking at problem B ("Dinner").
Any idea where…
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