Pull Request: C1_Akram_491_solve_contest_problem_5.20

[ahmedhagii]

Issue #491

Please Review Code: @MohabGhanim
Please Review Tests: @KhaledHelmy
Please Review Docs: @mohamedsaeed93

[KhaledHelmy]

@ahmedhagii After the contest ends, you shouldn't accept any submissions to a contest problem and @MohabGhanim shouldn't update the standings accordingly. Please, fix the conflicts as well :)

[ahmedhagii]

@KhaledHelmy he just submits and gets the reply without any linking to the DB, I'm just supporting the fact that some user maybe interested in solving a contest problem after it ends. Because we have a separate table for the contest problems so the only way to try one of theses problems is through a contest

[KhaledHelmy]

@ahmedhagii and that should be the case :) .. He shouldn't be able to try a contest problem except in a contest ;) .. Anyways, what is your scenario if a student submits a contest problem after the contest ends as I guess I didn't get it from your last comment?

[ahmedhagii]

@KhaledHelmy the table where standings get the stats from is not updated when the contest is over so there will be no change in the standings :)

[ahmedhagii]

@KhaledHelmy I just replies to him with accepted, comp err ... without any updates in the tables

[ahmedhagii]

@KhaledHelmy in any site supporting programming contests, I can solve problems after the contest ends i.e. Code Jam :D

[KhaledHelmy]

@ahmedhagii Ok, great. Then @MohabGhanim, you should consider not to update the standings table in this case.

[KhaledHelmy]

@ahmedhagii Why is this closed?

[ahmedhagii]

@KhaledHelmy i'll wait for some pull requests to be merged first