Codewars, Leetcode, Hackerrank. Online Judges Reviews

Sometimes the projects you work on just aren’t stimulating enough. Sometimes you need to fill your brain with as many programming problems as possible. Usually tackling a small sized project only requires a small set of challenges to solve while the rest of the time is spent tying the project together. When you need as many challenges to tackle in as short a time as possible you need online judges. This article is a review on the online judges, Codewars, LeetCode, and HackerRank.

Problems: Halloween Edition

Here’s a map of your neighborhood. Pink represents the candy value higher the better, Green and black nodes represent houses, blue is the distance between houses

Problem: You’re a kid, and tonight’s the greatest night a kid could have next to Christmas. Halloween night is coming soon and you’re prepping your bags for the trick or treating. The problem is, is that your parents are tired and are only willing to walk a certain number of feet before they call it a night. Given a map detailing the amount of feet between each house and the amount of candy given per house, how do you maximize the amount of candy gained before having to return back home?