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Beginner Competition: Queues

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HackerWeeks coding competitions provide a fun way for students to sharpen their programming, interviewing, and problem solving skills while earning a little swag in the process. The beginner competition is only for students who have not taken Algorithms. Don't forget to check the osu-hackathon slack channel after each competition to share solutions and congratulate contest winners. Good luck and happy coding!

Prizes

A bit of OSU swag will be mailed to the first place winner of the beginner and advanced categories!

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
  • Code directly from our platform, which supports over 30 languages. Learn more here.
  • Participants must be current students at Oregon State University.
  • To qualify for the beginner category, a student has not completed 325 (Algorithms).
  • Students that have taken CS 325 can only win in the advanced category of the competition.
  • Students must fill out this form in order to win.
  • Participants must follow all rules from the OSU Code of Student Conduct.
  • Cheating in any form is not allowed. This includes copy-pasting solutions from elsewhere, using multiple accounts to get better times, and any other methods that the contest administrators deem against the spirit of the competition.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score

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