My Competitive Programming Journey 🚀

📌 Overview

This repository is a collection of my solutions to various competitive programming problems from platforms like Codeforces, Beecrowd, SPOJ, and others. It serves as a personal archive of my progress and learning in the world of algorithms and data structures. The highlight of this repository is a custom C++ tool designed to automate and streamline my entire workflow.

🛠️ The Automation Tool: cp-helper

To optimize my practice sessions, I developed cp-helper, a command-line tool written in C++. It handles the repetitive tasks of setting up and organizing problems, letting me focus on what truly matters: solving.

Features

• 🚀 Interactive Menu: A simple and fast CLI to get started on a problem or contest immediately.
• 🗂️ Automatic Scaffolding: Instantly creates a directory for a new problem with a pre-configured C++ template and an in.txt file for test cases.
• 📅 Contest Mode: Generates a structured folder for an entire contest, creating sub-folders for each problem (e.g., A, B, C...).
• ✅ Smart Archiving: An interactive command to move completed problems from the Working/ directory to the appropriate online judge folder, keeping my workspace clean.
• 🎨 Customizable Template: The C++ code template is not hardcoded. You can fully customize your boilerplate by editing the Tools/template.cpp file, with no need to recompile!

📁 Folder Structure

My solutions are organized by the online judge they originate from. Problems I am actively solving reside in a local Working/ directory, which is ignored by Git.

/
├── 📁 Beecrowd/          # Completed solutions from Beecrowd
├── 📁 Codeforces/        # Completed solutions from Codeforces
├── 📁 SPOJ/              # Completed solutions from SPOJ
├── 📁 [...]              # ...and other online judges
├── 📁 Working/           # [Local Folder] Incomplete solutions
└── 🛠️ Tools/             # Source code for the cp-helper
     ├── cp-helper.cpp    # The main source code for the helper
     └── template.cpp     # Your customizable C++ template

⚙️ How to Use the Tool

The cp-helper tool is designed to be run from a local Working/ directory that you create.

Initial Setup

1. Create Your Workspace: Set up a main folder for your competitive programming practice. Inside it, create a Working/ directory and place the Tools/ folder (containing cptool.cpp and template.cpp) alongside it. Your structure should look like this:

   CP_Practice/
   ├── 🛠️ Tools/
   └── 📁 Working/
   

2. Customize Your Template (Optional): Edit the Tools/template.cpp file to match your preferred C++ boilerplate, headers, and macros.

3. Compile the Tool: Navigate to the Tools/ directory and compile the script.

   cd Tools/
   g++ cp-helper.cpp -o cp.exe

4. Place the Tool: Move the newly compiled executable into your Working/ directory.

   # From the Tools directory
   mv cp.exe ../Working/

Daily Usage

1. Navigate to your workspace:

   cd Working/

2. Run the tool:

   ./cp.exe

3. Follow the on-screen menu to start a new problem, create a contest, or finalize a solution.

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