Common Board @ Timus Online Judge

to MARAT BAKIROV

Posted by Timus Observer 20 Sep 2001 09:38

Dear Mr. Marat Bakirov,

Looks like so many people got WA because they can not see
the test case that made that WA, could you please store all
of the test cases samewhere in this website or below each
problem.

It would really help us to improve our programming skill by
solving much more problems. I believe this is the intention
of this website.

We really appreciate your time maintaining this website.
Thank you.

Well ... quite bad idea (+)

Posted by Petko Minkov 20 Sep 2001 18:10

I think that is a really bad idea. It's just not
what a contest really is. It will not be fair,
some people WILL cheat, believe me.
If you don't have the test data, you can make your own,
test your program, try to find the mistakes you've made,
and this will improve your skills more than looking
the test data.
Why don't you just find any site with problems and
test data ??? There're a lot of these everywhere, without
online judge, but you have the test data!

And finally, why do we need judge website if we can
judge our solutions with the test data we have ??

Petko Minkov

Absolutely right!

Posted by Marat Bakirov 20 Sep 2001 23:54

Subj.

Re: Well ... quite bad idea (+)

Posted by Timus Observer 21 Sep 2001 07:03

You probably right, but what we should do if we have passed
the sample and own develop test case but keep getting WA.
It has made several people frustrated. :(

Re: Well ... quite bad idea (+)

Posted by Marat Bakirov 21 Sep 2001 17:02

> You probably right, but what we should do if we have
passed
> the sample and own develop test case but keep getting WA.
> It has made several people frustrated. :(

Well, just learn to make good tests :) Or probably we have
mistakes here , but it is not likely to be for the problems
that were already solved by many people.

in this case

Posted by Dinh Quang Hiep (mg9h@yahoo.com) 21 Sep 2001 18:11

when u pass all the sample tests and your own ones, but
still get WA, u can use this webboard, i think the admin
create this one for that case. Although, maybe sometime the
judge was wrong (such as for problem 1018), but it's very
unusual !

Good luck !

QH@

Ok, thanks

Posted by Timus Observer 21 Sep 2001 20:26

> when u pass all the sample tests and your own ones, but
> still get WA, u can use this webboard, i think the admin
> create this one for that case. Although, maybe sometime
the
> judge was wrong (such as for problem 1018), but it's very
> unusual !
>
> Good luck !
>
> QH@
OK, I understand now, thanks to all of you. :)
>