We are going through an unprecedented situation currently. There are lockdowns and quarantines in many parts of the world. We feel the best way to cope with everything that is going on is to keep ourselves occupied.
To help with that, we at CodeDrills have something for all the competitive coders out there. On 25th March, we launched our own online judge and also launched the CodeDrills covid 21 days challenge. Every day, for the 21 days starting from 25th March, we will upload 1 problem. Just visit codedrills.io, login and start solving! The launch coincided with the start of a full lockdown in India.
Since the situation was unexpected, we rushed to put up the site as soon as possible, so there might be issues. If you find any bugs or want to request a feature, please write to us at [email protected] with as much details as possible.
Here is our mascot Ufu wearing a mask (if you are unable to see him here, head over to our page):
Here are the problems launched so far:
PS: The old code-drills site is still available at https://recommender.codedrills.io
PPS: We don't have all the 21 problems yet, if you have a problem idea please contact us
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Why a new platform instead of using an existing one? You could conveniently prepare problems in Polygon and publish them in CF GYM.
We are planning much more than algorithm problems (e.g. AI/ML, cloud etc.). So we felt it was better to build our own platform from scratch. It will not be exclusively for competitive coding.
Why the only allowed language is C++ ?
Since we launched in a hurry, we could not add more languages. We will add Python support soon.
Do add Java too(if possible). Thanks.
Sure, we will add Java too. It may take a while to add though, sorry about that.
Have you just marketed another platform on coderforces?
Not exactly marketing. We shared something we thought a lot of competitive coders would be interested in and codeforces is the best places to share it — just like there are posts of contests on Hackerearth, Atcoder, Topcoder etc. :)
I'm getting WA on every task I try except for "Apples and Bananas" (the a+b task). Are you sure they are correct? I tried every task except for "Beating Shell sort" and "Book stacks".
Hi, I took a look at your solutions. Here are my observations:
For Square-free subarrays, the idea seems wrong (though the direction of idea is correct). You have to consider indices of other numbers in the array with divisors matching the current number.
For Curfew delivery, the idea seems correct but the implementation has some bugs (e.g. The starting node can have curfew, curfew start time is inclusive etc.)
For Cookie supply, I did not understand the approach
For count of arrays with LIS, the direction of solution is correct but details seem wrong.
For Square-free subarrays, I used a two pointer solution (keeping the biggest interval that is currently valid). I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding your idea, but it's not enough to only consider indices of other numbers in the array with divisors matching the current number.
For the following case:
4 5When we consider the 5, we can only take 5 in the answer (one subarray ending at 5). Since 5*4 is divisible by 4. But if you only consider numbers with the same divisors as 5, you would not consider the 4, which is wrong.
Correct. I did catch that in my solution but missed cases like this:
2, 2, 5 (i.e. the divisors were split across elements).
I have fixed the test cases. Please try submitting again now. It should pass.
It works now. Nice!
Btw. in "Curfew delivery" I think I handled both of the things you said. But there is a good chance I missed something else. I also fixed my bug in LIS (I was returning int instead of long long).
How to solve Count of arrays with given LIS length?? Can you drop some hint??
Read about the efficient algorithm to solve LIS and notice that we can calculate if we somehow maintain the M array from the algorithm. Due to a property of the M array and the small constraints this should be possible.
I have intentionally kept the hint vague so as not to spoil the full solution. Let me know if you need a more detailed hint.
Thanks a lot!! I was able to solve it using your hint.
Should tasks be original for 21 days challenge?
I can share some of my favourite cf problems.
Since this is unplanned and sudden, it is okay if you take an existing idea and create your own problem. However, it should not be an exact copy of an already existing problem.
Will an editorial be published for the problems after 21 days?
We do not have plans for releasing editorials. Since this is not really a contest, feel free to ask for hints or discuss approaches here.
A feature request: Please add time limit too for every problem.
Done! Added time limit and memory limit after the statement. Submission History is also available now.
It shows only first 10 submissions for a problem, and my solution was AC after like 20-25 submissions later. I do not have access to my AC solution. Can you something about it?
For problem Beating Shell sort, I'm pretty sure the problem is not correct. I got AC on the problem, but the statement is not correct. The real text of the problem should be:
Find the number of integers in range from 0 to 4999 that can not be represented as a combination of the given gaps. So like if we had gaps g1,g2 and g3, we need to count the number of integers that can not be written in form a*g1+b*g2+c*g3 where a,b and c are natural numbers including 0.
For the current statement, the second test case is not correct. Look at the number 12, sure it can be written as 3*4, but the shell sorting algorithm will move it from position 12 to position 2 when it goes with gap 10, and it will stay on position 2 (The array will not be sorted). The actual answer for test case 2 with the current statement should be 3452.
I was reading about Shell sort and saw the theorem that if an array is g1 and g2-sorted then it will be a*g1 + b*g2 sorted. From there I mistakenly thought it implied the first version of the problem (i.e. not represented as a combination of given gaps).
Thanks a lot for the explanation, I understood how it is not the case. I have now changed the samples and tests to match the second version (i.e. not changed the statement, but changed the tests). Have verified it locally with brute-force. Please check now.
It's good now. But you can also increase the constraints maybe since the solution is O(n* number of gaps).
Good idea, have increased n.
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