…A Problem is Born
You probably haven’t put much thought into the problem creation process before, have you? You probably just take it for granted that every week there will be new and well-written problems waiting for you in the TopCoder Arena, don’t you? Well, someone has to write those problems before you can code them. Someone has to test the solutions to those problems before you can challenge them. These often-neglected members code feverishly just so that you can have the privilege of competing in TopCoder every week! I went into the administrator’s lobby during one match to de-mystify the process of how a problem gets from the writer’s imagination on to your screen.
