Introduction
Julia got excited. She still has 20 hours to go, and she only needs to work on last algorithm with medium level. She likes to document her practice starting from 12:42pm, how does she do to study, research, and catch up, and make some points from maximum 50 points.
Let us review what she has done so far, compared to the top 1 ranking player.
Some facts to share:
1. The last algorithm can be implemented in 20 minutes by the top performer.
2. The KnightL on a Chessboard is implemented by the top performer in 34 minutes; Compared to the best one, Julia spent 160 minutes.
Practice in the contest
Julia likes to work on the algorithm Prefix Neighbors, try to make things simple as possible. She started from 12:25, and then spent 3 hours to work on the algorithm.
Progress report
12:25 - 3:22pm - Feb. 11, 2017
Discussion about sorting strings, radix sorting is a good idea to try. More detail, I think that string sorting is using radix sorting. The test case 4 A ABC AC ACD is sorted by 26 O(N), N <= 11.
Passed first 10 test cases
Worked on the coding from 7:00pm - 12:00pm, and then fixed bugs until 2:26am. Gave up. Learn a ton of patience, develop some skills.
Here is the comparison:
Coding is like tennis sport
Julia likes to work hard on the algorithm problem solving. So, she plans to take a break 1 - 2 hours first and then continue to work on the algorithm.
Have 30 minutes workout to relax first, 90 minutes shopping trip. Saturday is the fun day.
Try to remember the whole paragraph:
frustrating sport,
no way around the hard work,
embrace it,
put int the hours to improve somethings,
a lot of sacrifice and effort,
sometimes little reward,
but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.
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