To win Google code jam you need to be really good, hell I don't even know if I am going to pass round 1. This is why I build this library. To get atleas some chance.

You are welcome to use this code as you want as long you provide me a feedback.

Futures

• Generate source code and output file.
• providing parsing library
• Allows you to compare brut with your actual algorithm
• Allows you to generate input
• Working in multithread

Project Structure

• input/ The input files, those will be renamed to java main class file
• output/source.zip Your source code excluding other main files
• output/output.txt The solution
• settings/ Directory created by the library
• src/ Your core files
• src/com.gazman/ Is where the library lives

Usage

1. Drop an input file, name does not matter, to input folder
2. Create new main file(with the method main()) in the default package, use Processor template for that.

   import com.gazman.processor.*;

/**
 * Created by ${USER} on ${DATE}.
 * Dependencies
 * File processing
 * - com.google.code.gson:gson:1.2.2
 * - org.zeroturnaround:zt-zip:1.8
 * Java version 1.7.0_60
 */
public class ${NAME} extends ProcessTask{

    public static void main(String arg[]) {
        Processor processor = new Processor();
//        processor.setTestMode();
//        processor.setGenerateMode(0);
        processor.init(${NAME}.class);
        processor.process();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onParse(Parser parser) {
        
    }

    @Override
    protected void onProcess(int caseNumber, OutputManager out, Assert tester) {

    }
}

Testing

• setTestMode() when uncommenting this line, the input will be taken from testInput/ drirectory
• Overriding the method onTestProcess() - It has the same signature as onProcess, you should use it to implement brute solution for small input, when you run, the result from onProcess will be compared to onTestProcess, and if those do not much you will be notified.
• setGenerateMode() - It allows you to generate the input by yourself and test with your brute via onTestProcess. To use it you need to do three things:
  • uncomment setGenerateMode(0)
  • override the methode generate(), this is where you actually generating the input, it will be called 100 times, you only need to generate 1 test case and use some random.
  • implemt onTestProcess to compare it with your brute Once you find an error, it will tell you the case number. Pass this number to setGenerateMode, and it will use your last generated input with that test case.

Dependencies

File processing

• com.google.code.gson:gson:1.2.2
• org.zeroturnaround:zt-zip:1.8

Java version: 1.7.0_60