I tried it too. I am not sure why that happens but it's likely due to dynamic memory allocation and all the overheads from function calls, error checking etc. When I wrote my own priority queue, it worked quite well. Here's the code if you are interested.
I got the correct answer for all test cases except for 7th. Anyone facing the same issue?
The swap function that you wrote doesn't work. You need to swap pointers.
I'm Yasharyan. I started with HTML at 8 and made a few webpages after looking at sources of templates. However I eventually stopped making pages (this was partially due to the fact that I tried developing an OS like interface but after sleepless nights, failed miserably).
I learned Java and started developing Android apps when I was 13. Even though I didn't really understand OOP, I did develop some basic applications like BMI calculator (I even posted one on Play Store 2 years later). I also learned Python around this time to tackle CS problems on brilliant.org more easily so my interest waned again.
At 14 I was back at it again and developed a few apps including a game. However they are quite terribly written. However I again stopped a bit because of study pressure from school and due to the fact that I wanted to learn more about math. 15 was mostly about math for me even though I couldn't still give math itself enough time due to homework (I also had to start from basics because the terribly modelled curriculum doesn't cover anything).
But now I've started homeschooling and I'm back to p...