Hello 5DN1L,
Thanks for replying and your directions , I will get back at it again.
Best regards,
Th.078
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Hello all!
I built an horrible but functional code that solve all of the test cases in IDE.
When I published it, it failed two validators:
- one of them was an AHA moment - of course I didnāt implement one of the features that I needed - and I corrected it.
- the second one doesnāt even start, looking at the only output I can get I see āTimeout: your program did not provide an input in due time.ā
No debug info, of course, but Iām at loss on why it wouldnāt return on time, given I already played worse case scenario off-IDE.
Am I stuck forever with an 87% score?
Not sure what you meant by āI already played worse case scenario off-IDEā? How did you test the case off-IDE? Did you use the mini-map at the lower left corner of the replay to rebuild the case for your debugging?
I printed each input for a number of turns in a few cases that were putting pressure (AKA computing time) to my algorithm, then used that input in a local IDE (PyCharm) to do some line-by-line debugging and remove the bottlenecks.
The case that fails is not even that complex: my code had issues with the open maps and not with the labyrinths with walls.
The fact that the test case fails with my code not providing a reply is puzzling.
If you want, you may send me your codes (the one you use for IDE and the one you use for off-IDE) by private message to have a look.
No need anymore, thank you!
I did not think to infer the input from the minimap.
I did just that, tested locally, and found the error.
I do a check on maxrow when attaching a node, and used maxrow instead of maxrow -1.
Really interesting that this didnāt came up with the empty map case.
Now sorted, 100% achieved.
thank you!
Mikro-mx
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Thank you very well it works for me and pass the harder tests
to aviod same distance use euclidian distance
Really challenge for me. Didnāt give up yet. But why do I have Rick in the explanation and code comments and Kirk in console output ?
It was Kirk originally, and later for some reason (copyright?) the name was changed to Rick, but probably the staff forgot to update some instances of the name.
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Hi to all and thanks to the CodinGame team for this very good Puzzle 
!
ā Yes, itās an old puzzle, but so happy to solve it today 
.
I have to say that, yes : RedBlogGames helped me a lot to understand Path-finding theory, and after that, to experiment trainings in my preferred 2 languages (C# & Python) ā¦
But, i had to train a lot before success solving it today.
=> Good luck and exercises to new users ā¦ itās a hard Puzzle ā¦ now you know why 
!
By to all : have 
sun, 
fun and 
CodinGames ā¦