Monthly Archives: July 2008

Because I promised in my last post, and because I like to show off, here are the results of my refactoring code jam problem B. Old and new. Took it from 143 lines to just 69 – I’m definitely happy with that.

This past Wednesday I entered Google’s code jam 2008. For those that don’t know (as I didn’t before one of my coworkers brought it up), this is a yearly programming competition. You are given a small selection of problems to solve, and a set period of time (hours, not days) to solve it in. When [...]