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Jan 2009

Please put forward any suggestions of how to improve SPOJ in the nearest (or more distant) future in this thread.

Please report problems with tasks from the ProblemSet Archives in a separate forum.

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-"Could problems from a contest(such as acm/ioi) be grouped together? "

1 month later

Er, something I just come out. I think the tutorial & partial problem sets are REALLY for beginner's practise, like DIV 2 in Topcoder. So I'll give the following advices to the admins of SPOJ:
i)Give points to people who solved problems in partial/tutorial sets.(Of course, less than the problems in main SPOJ problem set.)
ii)Move all the TOO easy problems to partial/tutorail set. So the problems in classical problem set will have a very high quality.
iii)For a problem which is scored by % of solved data sets, the points should be calculated like this:
80/(40+number_of_people_who_gets_full_mark)*%of corrected solved data sets.

+1

2 months later

Would it be possible to see the statistics of the question (point value, users, acc%) from within the problem statement?

I have two complaints on the new improvements of the site navigation.

I really see no point in the new fancy source code "window". I always have to move it and resize to be able to view the code. I think it was better before.

One more thing - when switching between rank pages, it's no more loading a new URL, but it loads a new page at the same place. I don't see any pros over the old style, and sometimes this behaviour is quite annoying. For example, in submission ranks I click on page #23, click a user name and then go back - great, it returns to page #1, not #23.

Thanks,
stjepan

1 month later
1 year later

first:
why there is no info about how many problems I have solved from all archive? or from tutorial? or from partial?
I think this info should be added in user profile.

second:
why not to do such thing: for example I have solved a problem, and then to give possibility to see other users codes for this problem?

@SKYDOS:
first: added to TODO list
second: this question pops up few times a month: source codes are property of their owners; and publishing them would kill healthy competition

another idea: why not to add to each problem tags?
for example: graph theory, math, dp, string algos, etc

it will be very useful.
for example for those who needs to practice more on some kind of problems to upgrade their skills.

ps
found this one : viewtopic.php?f=53&t=57623
2009 year... hm... nothing happened frowning

11 days later

why not to round points to two digits after dot?
I think it will be better and more precise.
something like: 124.87 and etc

hello!
Have an idea...
why not to sort first of all by time, then by memory, then by date "Best submissions"? ( spoj.pl/ranks/ANARC08E/2)

I think it will be more exact "Best submissions" list, then what we have now.

why there is not such link to look at last AC solutions only?
its very useful to see different AC solutions time

1 month later

HI,

Can be added (after compiler upgrade?) features of C++0x standart. There are some "killing" features, like "auto" type, that really simplifies coding, and makes it more pleasant

In gcc-4.5.2 many of them are already implemented
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/cxx0xstatus.html

Thanks

Just wanted to write about this!
+1
really needed C++0x very much! regex and so on!
pls!

Can we have here an upgraded version of Mono C#? for example like on ideone ( 2.8 )

Make the tests for tutorial problems open, since they don't count towards score.

1 year later

Questions Related to Open Contests should not be allowed

I personally feel that questions related to ACM-ICPC, codechef and many other open contests should not be allowed in SPOJ.
Because, their input, output and even source files are available on internet. So it's a very good way of increasing points without any efforts.
Many problem setters even list this contest as their resource which makes it even more easy to google.

9 years later

when I click on the topic tag, it does not show all the problems of that topic. Like dp has 333 problems but I can only see aound 50-60 problems on opening the tag.Please rectify this error.
Also problems need to be classified more and UI has to improved