https://github.com/twofx/templatecs

C# boilerplate code for programming competitions
https://github.com/twofx/templatecs

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C# boilerplate code for programming competitions

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/twofx/templatecs
• Owner: TwoFX
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-06-12T14:24:56.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-09-06T08:33:29.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-06T13:57:34.998Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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TemplateCS

==========

This repository contains boilerplate C# code for various algorithmic programming

competitions. Right now, [Google Code Jam](https://code.google.com/codejam) and

[Codeforces](http://codeforces.com/) are the intended use cases, though the

Codeforces mode should be suitable for many other competitions as well.

The boilerplate code mainly helps with these things:

1. Input and Output. There are functions for reading input in various forms

with minimal pain. For Google Code Jam, the handling of input and output files

is done so that only a single test case has to be considered by the programmer

at any point.

2. Rapid brute force. Numerous methods and extension methods are provided that

enable quickly iterating over the problem space of a given task. These include

simple functions such as generating all combinations and permutations of a

collection but also slightly more advanced operations such as a rather versatile

method for generating cartesian products.

3. Common patterns. Some rather common patterns which can be factored out, such

as memoization, have been put into respective functions.

The point of this template code is that using this code together with LINQ

should enable a programmer to directly express their ideas and algorithms

in code without having to think about details like how to generate all subsets

of a set. Especially brute force solutions can usually be implemented using

this code in just one or two lines of code that generate all possible states

combined with a short verification function, which can all be chained together

using LINQ.

The code requires a compiler/environment which can handle C# 6, such as Visual

Studio 2015.