Facebook held another hacker cup this year again for the second time! What a way to kick start a new year too! I know there have been a couple of visitors around the world coming to my site searching for solutions to this year’s Hacker Cup problems. Unfortunately, I did not participate in this year’s
Recently, I have been actively participating and competing in Facebook Hacker Cup 2011. Never did I realized, these little bits and pieces of what I am doing at Facebook Hacker Cup, did taught me more than I could even imagined. These things I learnt, isn’t something obvious in the naked eye, definitely.
Learning is a process.
The previous Online Round 1 last week had a bug with the test case as well as the engineering of Hacker Cup. Hence, Facebook had to push the Online Round 1 until further notice.
However, today I received and email from Facebook, as well as the updates on Facebook Hacker Cup that Online Round 1 will
This morning from 2300hrs – 0200am GMT+8, I was hacking at Online Round 1A on Power Overwhelming problem set. Those guys were super PRO with the other challenges, the solved the algorithms in less than an hour! INSANE!
Anyway, there was an error on Facebook end with regards to the test case engineering for Power Overwhelming
Having been qualified from the Qualification Round, the next round of challenge is in Online Round 1. I am excited, and I would be lying if I said that I am not nervous.
Online Round 1
Online Round 1 consists of 3 sub-rounds, each lasting 3 hours. Competitors who advance to Online Round 1 can participate in
The scoreboard for Facebook Hacker Cup Qualification Round was out. I am kind of disappointed though, I was ranked 2971 out of 5749 hackers WORLDWIDE.
And the results on Facebook aren’t accurate. I was ranked 2901 / 5749 on some instance, and was ranked 2971 / 5749 on some instances. Well in any case, I am
Studious Student
You’ve been given a list of words to study and memorize. Being a diligent student of language and the arts, you’ve decided to not study them at all and instead make up pointless games based on them. One game you’ve come up with is to see how you can concatenate the words to generate
Peg Game
At the arcade, you can play a simple game where a ball is dropped into the top of the game, from a position of your choosing. There are a number of pegs that the ball will bounce off of as it drops through the game. Whenever the ball hits a peg, it will bounce
Finally, I received the email from Facebook Team that I qualified to advance in the Facebook Hacker Cup Qualification Round and am eligible to compete in Online Round 1. This is so exciting!
I can’t imagine what other algorithm challenges are up next, BUT, YOU ARE ON! I am taking you down, ALGORITHM!
CONGRATULATIONS to those who
Well, this morning GMT+0800 8AM marks the end of the qualification round. I will be posting the next two solutions if I have the time.
Everybody on Facebook seem pretty excited about the results, so am I. I would say that it was challenging and indeed it boost my learning, improved the way I develop and
