Wish me luck...
Nov. 9th, 2007 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenTomorrow (Saturday) I'll be leaving really early for a team programming competition, which means I'll have to get up at about 6am (as opposed to my usual between 8 and 9am).
The region my university is in is fairly tough, as we're competing with Standford, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, so I really hope we do well.
I'm fairly confident that one of our three teams will do well, but I'm not so sure about mine.
You see, my team (as all our three teams) have three members, one of which hasn't done much C, C++, or Java programming in quite awhile, so doesn't exactly have a handle on programming for the competition, despite the fact that he could have tried during the last half dozen practices.
The other teammate seems to spend an inordinate amount of time coding right on the single terminal we're alloted, which is Not A Good Thing™.
I've been told that the second teammate does better if you ask him for an algorithm and code it yourself, but in this case, that would make me the bottleneck as I'd be the only coder on the team.
It's a Good Thing™ that I've been doing pretty good at the coding aspect, because I just might be the person keeping things alive for our team.
I'm almost hoping that one of the other members doesn't show up so we can use our reserve team member (a known entity who is very good at the mathematically-intensive problems and is someone that I've had as a teammate last year).
But, it's too soon to tell.
Right now I'm wishing that some other university will host next year's Canadian site so that we can have our coach back.
(because he's the main guy in charge of most of the ACM operations at my university, he's really not available when we might need him during the competition)
The region my university is in is fairly tough, as we're competing with Standford, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, so I really hope we do well.
I'm fairly confident that one of our three teams will do well, but I'm not so sure about mine.
You see, my team (as all our three teams) have three members, one of which hasn't done much C, C++, or Java programming in quite awhile, so doesn't exactly have a handle on programming for the competition, despite the fact that he could have tried during the last half dozen practices.
The other teammate seems to spend an inordinate amount of time coding right on the single terminal we're alloted, which is Not A Good Thing™.
I've been told that the second teammate does better if you ask him for an algorithm and code it yourself, but in this case, that would make me the bottleneck as I'd be the only coder on the team.
It's a Good Thing™ that I've been doing pretty good at the coding aspect, because I just might be the person keeping things alive for our team.
I'm almost hoping that one of the other members doesn't show up so we can use our reserve team member (a known entity who is very good at the mathematically-intensive problems and is someone that I've had as a teammate last year).
But, it's too soon to tell.
Right now I'm wishing that some other university will host next year's Canadian site so that we can have our coach back.
(because he's the main guy in charge of most of the ACM operations at my university, he's really not available when we might need him during the competition)
