Hi there. I invite you to participate in my contest. It will take place in Codeforces::Gym at 15:00 (Moscow timezone — UTC+4) (Time in other regions).

Problems are rather easy, so it will be more interesting for div2 participants.

** Warning: I have only russian statements. This contest is only for those who can understand russian statements.**

Good luck

Alexey freopen Zolotov

Since almost every member of the community Codeforces know how to write programs, we decided to abandon the wysiwyg HTML editor, and introduce a geek method. Of course, technical texts will gain much more convenient, and text will look uniform.

Now we use modified Markdown as a markup language for blog posts and comments. Since we use an additional extensions, we called markup simply Codeforces Markup. Codeforces custom tags are available in the editor, I will publish a description of the rest here a little later. In a few words it looks like simplified previous version — double square brackets are replaced by single square bracket.

In addition, we improved typography posts and comments.

See description Markdown using the links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
• http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
• http://bywordapp.com/markdown/syntax.html

Here's a short list of features:

1. insert user handle (use ~tourist);
2. italic and bold;
3. inline code — return a == 0 ? b : gcd(b % a, a); (place it between `);
4. numerated, unnumerated and nested lists;
5. headers;
6. autocorrection hyphens with dashes;
7. smart URL detection (makes them to be links) http://codeforces.com/;
8. tables and images;
9. source code highlighting;
10. "smart" quotes;
11. separate paragraphs with a blank lines;
12. special Codeforces tags;
13. insert photos like [photoalbum:PicasaPublicAlbumURL];
14. and much more!

I recall that on Codeforces implement preview, so you do not need crazy experiments on the Markdown in comments:)

MikeMirzayanov

On January, 27 we summed up the results and rewarded the laureates. They are:

tourist The Best Codeforces Participant 2011

Ripatti The Best Codeforces Problemsetter 2011

Alex_KPR The Best Codeforces Blogger 2011

• The Best Codeforces Participant 2011: Gennady tourist Korotkyevich. We've recounted the rating taking only the 2011 rounds into consideration. Gennady topped the table well ahead of everybody else! You can follow the link to track his success on Codeforces contests.
• The Best Codeforces Problem Writer 2011: Artem Ripatti Ripatti. In 2011, Artem prepared about 10 rounds on Codeforces and proved to be an author of interesting problems as well as a responsible partner. We are grateful to Artem for the help to the project and we hope for further collaboration.
• The Best Codeforces Blogger 2011: Alexander Alex_KPR Kouprin. Alexander's blog (mostly in Russian) frequently delighted readers with interesting posts. His reports on the Russian Code Cup, the ACM-ICPC finals, Petrozavodsk training camp aroused interest not only in regular readers but also attracted some new ones. Thank you!

The Codeforces project thanks all participants and post authors for the interest towards the project. But we want to say our special thanks to all problem authors!

Hey everyone,

Not so long ago in the English Wikipedia has been added to the article about Petr Mitrichev (Petr). Currently, there is a discussion of this article for removal due to the lack of significance. Here is a quote from the discussion: "I don't see how Petr is notable in Wikipedia standards. What makes him different from the hundreds or maybe even thousands of others who are on a similar level as him at competitive programming?".

By the way, there is the article about Reid Barton, the outstanding contestant from US. Who is more valuable for the history?

It would be nice if those who is familiar with the rules of Wikipedia, added to the discussion to support Petr.

By the way, the article actually seems incomplete and not disclosing the success of Peter. Maybe someone will undertake to improve?

Comments?

Hi!

Tomorrow, January, 22-nd at 11:00 o'clock (Moscow timezone), will have place Codeforces Round #104! The problemsetter will be me, Herasymiv Vitaliy (witua). Thanks a lot to Artem Rakhov (RAD) for help in praparing the problems and Maria Belova (Delinur) for problems translation.

I hope you will like this round.

See you tomorrow!

Points destribution today is:

DIV1: 500-1000-1500-2500-2500

DIV2: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500

Thanks to all, and here are the results:

Division 1:

1. tourist
2. dzhulgakov
3. PavelKunyavskiy
4. wuzhengkai
5. shangjingbo
6. ilyakor
7. Gerald

Hi there. I invite you to participate in my first contest. It will take place in Codeforces::Gym at 19:30 (Moscow timezone — UTC+4).

Problems are rather easy, so it will be more interesting for div2 participants.

Warning: now statements are only in russian. But later we will translate all our trains in english, so everybody will be able to run them in virtual contest mode.

Today we open a new project Codeforces::Gym, it will be started on January 19, 08:00AM. 30 minutes later, оn Thursday, January, 19, 2012 08:30 (UTC) the testing training contest will be started. The duration of the training is 3 hours. We invite you to join us! As all the trainings in Codeforces::Gym it will be held according ACM-ICPC rules.

As it will be a training, we will use problems from some programming contest (thank you, authors!). Please do not take part in the training, if you've seen these problems. Do not spoil training to other members. Thank you for your understanding.

Please use the official project tracker to report about bugs and feature requests.

Good day, friends!

UPD: Problem analysis

We've made it! Or in any case, we are at least very close to it.

On January 19, 2012 at 12:00 we open a sub-project called "Gym". In short, its goal is to enable the Codeforces coders not only to participate in competitions and discuss them, but also to train and coach easily.

In fact, despite the wide diversity of online judges in the world, a well thought-out training service system does not exist. So, the expectations from this system are:

1. Collection of online contests, composed mainly of the past official contests.
2. Opportunity to integrate the final standings of past contests in the online contests to be able to train "against" the official participants.
3. Opportunity to participate in the training at any time whatsoever, without fear that something breaks down and the server will fall. In short, reliability.
4. Opportunity to write virtual contests and to solve the problems in a practice mode.
5. Opportunity to participate both individually and as part of a team.
6. Opportunity to keep the team while changing the team members.
7. Opportunity to view various statistics and participation history, the possibility to compile and publish reports on selected participants/contest.
8. Opportunity for a coach to add an online contest by him/herself, if this contest still does not exist. The process should be simple, reliable and maximally automated. The opportunity to parse the final standings of the past contests. The opportunity to add the attempts of the official participants to an online contest.
9. Opportunity to view tests or other players' solutions for those who have solved the problem.
10. Opportunity to find the training to one's taste, i.e. selecting by parameters.

The Codeforces Project:: The training aims to meet all these requirements. Already, nearly everything of the above list is available and whatever is not, will be available.