Wednesday, September 14, 2016

First contest medal from HackerRank - world code sprint #6

Sept. 14, 2016

Fun facts about HackerRank world code sprint #6:
1. Julia won her first Bronze medal! Excellent! a big surprise!
Get into top 25% - Bronze medal (Gold 4%, Silver 8%, Bronze 13%)
https://www.hackerrank.com/scoring/rating

2. Julia worked on a simple question: Flip matrix more than 1 hour
problem statement:
https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/world-codesprint-6/challenges/flipping-the-matrix

C# practice:
https://gist.github.com/jianminchen/856f97a7f01f049efbde50078b7699ba

She was so interested in the flip part, later, she figured out that the algorithm should not be so complicated. It is just a medium level one.

3. Julia learned DFS/BFS algorithm through HackerRank, she found the joy to read code and try to write one for every different idea.

4. Being a programmer, it is hard to control your luck. But HackerRank contest looks like more controllable. More practice leads to more medal. Julia likes a silver one next time. <- Nothing is impossible! top 12%. Julia tried to stay overnight Saturday night, get in top 600/ 12%. 

Fun facts: 
1. More than 5 computer professors / score range: around 200 score, silver medal, 230 - 270 ranking. 
2. Julia, work hard, try some difficult level algorithm day by day. 

Blog review:
1. http://juliachencoding.blogspot.ca/2016/04/talk-about-coding-performance-concerns.html

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