I recommend watching the following videos for learning about graphs. These are really well made videos and he covers a lot in these short videos, so if you feel overwhelmed, use the rewind and pause buttons.
Introduction to Graphs
What are graphs? What are different types of graphs (directed and undirected, trees and DAGs, etc)? And examples of using them to model web links, flights between cities, and other things.
Here's the thing, I messed up my ZCO and is getting 0.
ZIO is my last shot as I am in 12th, and when I sat down to solve ZIO qpaper 2013, I was stumped by the very first question.
So, how do you come to an algorithm for problems in ZIO and what all can be done in 5 days.
This discussion is for expanding your array of maneuvers needed to code quickly and efficiently.
STL:
The first and most important thing that I'd like to discuss about is the C++ STL. Learning it would enable you to code up an assortment of algorithms and complicated data structures in a matter of seconds.
You can learn to use the C++ STL from the following amazing sites:
Studytonight : Contains syntax and examples for most of the STL containers and algorithms.
Sanfoundry : Shows how to implement what you've learnt in complete programs
Topcoder(Highly recommended) : This place teaches yo...
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Problem statement clarification:
Now I get it, I was misinterpreting question all this time. Actually after finish of each round, lead is not the difference between points of that round. But the lead is difference between the points achieved through all rounds including current round - Lakpa Tashi Bhutia
For those of you who haven't solved this problem, this is one of the best problems from which you can learn how limitations of memory and time can make an easy problem, difficult to solve!
Just when I obtained the accepted sign after several trials, I was quite disappointed that I got a worst case running time of 1.98 s . So I headed over to Keshav's github repository and when I tried out the solution posted, it gave me a worst case running time of 0.024 s. Wow! Now that's a huge improvement. I really wanted to upgrade my arsenal with the procedure that had been used, but to my dismay I couldn't understand how it actually works. It would be great if someone posted the technique and procedure employed in solving the problem in the link attached above!