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Re:Codility - Automated tests of programming skills by loup-vaillant on Friday January 08, 2010 @09:20AM (#1039540)
The spec was clear, but the fact that the test dataset used for the test was the very one given as an example wasn't. plus, it was a bit frustrating not being able to fiddle with the test dataset. I would have done it locally with my compiler, but the necessary boilerplate would have lost me time. So, I didn't test enough, and made a silly error which went undetected because of the trailing zero. I still got 75%, but that looks quite miraculous.

EDIT: It appears I can customize my test dataset, and I didn't see it. Silly me.

Re:Codility - Automated tests of programming skills by jakacki on Friday January 08, 2010 @07:25PM (#1040786)
Yes, it is even possible to add your own data sets, Codility will tell you what you code returns for them. I guess we should make it more apparent in the interface.