You all may be well aware of the CodeChef Certified Data Structure & Algorithms Programme (CCDSAP).
As I surfed across the pages of the new certification section of the codechef website, collecting details of the aforementioned program, I stumbled across this webpage - https://www.codechef.com/certification/prepare. This page has an excellent compilation of tutorials, problems, editorials on every important data structure and algorithm. Any beginner to competitive coding will find this page extremely useful.
To brush up my skills, I started solving problems from the preparation page(https://www.codechef.com/certification/prepare). It has some problems from SPOJ too. I solved them. Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how much value points I earned on SPOJ upon solving the problems. Now, SPOJ does not provide us with any option to know the value points associated with problem in the corresponding problem page.
Like, the preparation page(https://www.codechef.com/certification/prepare) has a link to a SPOJ problem - JNEXT. The JNEXT problem page does not include any information about the value points associated with the problem. So does every problem page. Now, to know how much I increased my score on SPOJ, I had to search for the JNEXT problem over 73 pages of the list of classical problems.
(Upon finding the problem, you need to hover over the “USERS” column to get the value points associated with the problem. Hence, to know the value points associated with a spoj problem, one need to search over 73 pages!)
I know scores are not the sole reason to practice on SPOJ. But, I was curious.
And we all know - “Curiosity is the mainstay of what it means to be human!” xP.
I wanted to know the value points associated with problems I was solving. So, I wrote a simple python script to get the value points associated with each problem on SPOJ and incorporated it with a web page.
Python script was for my usage. The web page is to help those who are as curious as me. xP
Link to web page: http://alfarhanzahedi.com/spoj_scores/index.html
Link to python script: https://github.com/alfarhanzahedi/spoj_scores/blob/master/script.py
I am a beginner, so I have hard coded the output of the python script into the HTML source code.
I will incorporate the script into a Django app soon.
If you have any feedback / suggestions, do comment!
