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2014 Regional

Professor Astrachan asked us to write a report full of emotional activities after the regional contest.

Stand back, I am throwing emotion !

Fun Stuff

Fun Comments in Code

• I have found couple funny comments in surfing the web. Let me know which one's your fav.

I am particularly guilty of this, embedding non-constructive comments, code poetry and little jokes into most of my projects (although I usually have enough sense to remove anything directly offensive before releasing the code). Here's one I'm particulary fond of, placed far, far down a poorly-designed 'God Object':

/**

• For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones,
• the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest,
• fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men,
• I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down,
• never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry,
• never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
• /

I'M SORRY!!!! I just couldn't help myself.....!

• And another, which I'll admit I haven't actually released into the wild, even though I am very tempted to do so in one of my less intuitive classes:

//

// Dear maintainer:

// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,

// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,

// please increment the following counter as a warning

// to the next guy:

// total_hours_wasted_here = 42

//

• This one is quite funny

Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong."); throw up; //ha ha

• Also check out this

//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing //Now, God only knows

• lol:

stop(); // Hammertime!

• This seems to stop morons from messing my code...

// Autogenerated, do not edit. All changes will be undone.

• Lol such a win

// sometimes I believe compiler ignores all my comments

• Fun stuff

// somedev1 - 6/7/02 Adding temporary tracking of Login screen

// somedev2 - 5/22/07 Temporary my ass

• And my all time favorite

// drunk, fix later

Wish I were kidding. And knowing the developer who wrote the code, I think he meant it literally.

$2+2\sqrt{2}$ import java.util.*; public class c { /** * @param args */ Scanner in=new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { c noob=new c(); noob.go(); } private void go() { in.nextInt(); int c=0; while(in.hasNextInt()){ c++; int p=in.nextInt(); ArrayList<Queue<Integer>> al=new ArrayList<Queue<Integer>>(); for(int i=0;i<p;i++){ al.add(new LinkedList<Integer>()); } for(int i=0;i<52;i++){ al.get(0).offer(in.nextInt()%13); } int[] count=new int[p]; int[] last=new int[p]; for(int i=0;i<100000;i++){ for(int j=p-1;j>=0;j--){ if(al.get(j).size()==0)continue; count[j]=(count[j]+1)%13; int t=al.get(j).poll(); if(count[j]==t){ if(j!=p-1){ al.get(j+1).offer(t); } if(al.get(j).size()==0){ if(t==0)t=13; if(j==0){ last[j]=t; }else{ if(last[j-1]!=0)last[j]=t; } } } } } boolean works=true; for(int i:last){ if(i==0)works=false; } System.out.print("Case "+c+":"); if(works){ for(int i:last){ System.out.print(" "+i); } }else{ System.out.print(" unwinnable"); } System.out.println(); } } }