Looking for a fun place to practice your coding skills? Then join us for Coding Practice with Kick Start #3 – a four-day practice session from Friday, August 26 and until Tuesday, August 30 (add this to your calendar so you don’t miss out).

What is Coding Practice with Kick Start? Kick Start’s beginner-friendly practice session provides you the opportunity to try out our Googler-created problems without the pressure of a timed round or scoreboard. Only you can see your results. To get you started, we provide starter code in several coding languages to help you frame your solution and Google engineers available to answer any questions. At the end of the week, join us for the problem walkthrough livestream on Tuesday, August 30 at 15:00 UTC, where Google engineers will walk you through detailed problem solutions.

This session is for you if you are:

• new to competitive programming
• looking to boost your skills before the next Kick Start round
• eager to learn something new
• interested in connecting with a global community

Before Coding Practice with Kick Start begins, we recommend reviewing this Google Developers Blog about the session and watching our Problem and Platform Tutorial, which details features of the Kick Start platform and tips on how to solve a problem.

We hope you’ll join us for some coding practice!

Looking for a fun place to practice your coding skills? Then join us for Coding Practice with Kick Start #2 – a four-day practice session starting Monday, June 27 and ending Friday, July 1.

What is Coding Practice with Kick Start? Kick Start’s beginner-friendly practice session provides you the opportunity to try out our Googler-created problems without the pressure of a timed round or scoreboard. Only you can see your results. To get you started, we provide starter code in several coding languages to help you frame your solution and Google engineers available to answer any questions. At the end of the week, join us for the problem walkthrough livestream on Friday, July 1 at 3:00 UTC, where Google engineers will walk you through detailed problem solutions.

This session is for you if you are:

• new to competitive programming
• looking to boost your skills before the next Kick Start round
• eager to learn something new
• interested in connecting with a global community

Before Coding Practice with Kick Start begins, we recommend reviewing this Google Keyword Blog about the session and watching our Problem and Platform Tutorial, which details features of the Kick Start platform and tips on how to solve a problem.

We hope you’ll join us for some coding practice!

Hi everyone,

HackerEarth and URI Online Judge are joining forces to bring you the 1st Collegiate Cup Brazil 2017.

Please find the link of registration here.

The Collegiate Cup Brazil will be divided into two stages.

A. Open Qualifier: It will be held online on the HackerEarth platform on May 27, 2017 at 9:30 P.M UTC. It will be a 24 hour long contest consisting of 4 algorithmic problems. Check your time zone here.

B. Final Round: It will be held online on the URI platform on June 17, 2017 at 4:30 P.M UTC, in which top 100 Teams selected from the qualifier will participate. It will be a 4 hour long contest and consisting of 4 algorithmic problems. Check your time zone here.

Eligibilty Criteria:

1) All the participants have to be Brazilians.

2) It is a team contest, where each team must have at least 2 and at most 3 members.

3) At least one of the team members needs to currently be enrolled in a Brazilian University. Otherwise, they are not eligible for the prizes.

4) People from 2 different universities, are not eligible for prizes. To be eligible for the same, either they should be professionals or belong to same university.

5) You must create an account on URI to be eligible for the qualifier, if not already registered on URI.

6) You must connect URI account to HackerEarth to be eligible for the qualifier.

7) In order to win the Collegiate Cup, the team needs to submit proof of identity (college ID).

Programming languages allowed: C, C++, Java, Python and Python 3.

Prizes:

First Prize (per member): 1st place medals, commemorative swagger and $15000 worth AWS credits. Brazil Collegiate Cup trophy will be sent to the respective university.

Second Prize (per member): 2nd place medals, commemorative swagger and AWS credits.

Third Prize (per member): 3rd place medals, commemorative swagger and AWS credits.

Prize for Registrants: All registrants will receive AWS credits worth $100.

Good luck and Happy Coding :)

Statement link: http://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&Itemid=8&page=show_problem&problem=1890

Brief: It's a LCS problem, but the constraints are too high for the DP approach (O(N * M), where N and M <= 20000). The conversion to a LIS, which could lead to a O(N * lg M), is impractical because both arrays contain repeated elements.,

Any suggestions?