Some time ago in russian discussion of SNWS 2015 ballon said that I should start recording screencasts of my participation in contests. It sounded like a joke for me, and I don't think that it is interesting for a large number of people; but still I decided to try something new and record one of contests, even if I am not going to do it on a regular basis in future. At least now I can save a lot of time while answering questions like "How are you coding", "do you use debugger", "do you prefer CodeBlocks or Visual Studio" and so on.
Below you can see a screencast of my participation in SNWS 2015 Round 4. Problem statements are in russian. There are nothing interesting after 47th minute, when all tasks are done — only refreshing standings from time to time.
P.S. For those of you who are not familiar with SNWS/SNSS — SnarkNews winter series/SnarkNews summer series is a contest series held every year; it consists of 5 rounds with virtual participation, TCM/Time rules for scoring a single round and Grand Prix 30 rules for overall standings of series. (You can read more about these scoring systems here; starting from current season of SNWS 2nd place is getting 75 points instead of 80).
Usually problemset is in russian only, therefore most of contestants are from Post-Soviet states. Problemset usually consists of 6 problems, taken from other contests and rewritten in order to make it impossible to find given tasks using google; usually they are rather easy, comparing to problems from some longer individual contests or ACM ICPC contests, but you have only 80 minutes for whole problemset, so speed matters a lot here.
You may find current standings (without Round 5 yet) here.
You type really fast. BTW how do you get some-sort of random lyrics at the top of your code?
They aren't "random" :) It often happens that song from the top was actually playing while I was writing a solution or some time before/after it.
I can actually type it, or just copy-paste — first way takes some time but gives one more opportunity to improve typing skills.
What is your typing method? What fingers do you use to type special characters like '[',']','<','>' etc?
I am curious to know about some of your #define's for example #define y0 sdkfaslhagaklsldk.
Also, Congratulations on leading the contest You haven't mentioned that here. Really humble of you.
y0, y1, left, right and some other names can't be used as the names of global variables because they are defined in some of the headers.
Thanks I didn't know that. I wonder what's the problem with asking something here about the code or commenting the fact that a person is down to earth. Thanks again dalex .