Test 3 How Fast Can You Sort 1,000,000 Items
An application needs to sort data as fast as possible.
Below is the third challenge. Each SCS challenge will require the user to solve a problem and present their approach through a coded solution. All questions are designed to be solvable by mid-level C application developers in one hour or less.
The best solution submitted will receive an Amazon gift certificate worth $25.00 and have the winning solution, along with the winners name, on the SCS website:
4.Reponses to Challenge 3 need to be receivedby 5:00 pm CDT on May 6, 2015
2. The program, including the created method must compile, build and run without errors or warnings.
Check out codingchallenge 1andchallenge 2and learn the winning challenge solutions.
Superior Consulting Services (SCS) is offering a series of technical coding challenges designed to challenge and test the skills of C application developers while also educating them on the latest in coding. This blog addresses C basics and presents SCS third challenge: how fast can you sort 1,000,000 items.
The winner of this challenge will produce a result that sorts the list in the fastest time as measured by the embedded stopwatch function in the code below.
3. Contestant challenge submittals should be emailed ith the subject lineSCS Coding Challenge 3
You may use any collection class to store and send the data to the sort method, but you cannot do anything to preprocess, format or sort the data prior to calling your sort method.
5. In the event of a tie between two or more winning solutions, the first solution received will receive the prize; however, all submitters with correct solutions will be recognized.
1. The Method should contain all appropriate attribution, decoration, typing, and punctuation.
6. Employees of SCS are not eligible to participate in the coding challenge.
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Using the class below, create asinglemethod in C to sort a collection of 1,000,000 string objects of length 64 characters and return the collection indescendingalphabetical order, i.e. from Z to A. A prototype of this method is highlighted in the code sample below and highlightedyellow.
