Amazon CodeNinja Programming Contest


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This Saturday the Amazon CodeNinja Programming Contest is taking place. Here’s the first problem:

GIven a 2D NxN matrix, visualize it as concentric circles. You have to find the rotated matrix where each element in the circle is rotated by 1 position layer by layer in an alternate clockwise and anticlockwise direction.

Input Format:

First line of input contains an integer, N.

Then follow N lines, each containing N space separated integers. These numbers are the entries of given matrix.

Output Format:

Print to output the resultant matrix. Each row has to be printed in a separate line and within each row adjecent numbers should be separated by a space.

Sample Input:

4
2 3 4 5
1 6 7 8
4 2 1 9
5 3 2 4

Sample Output:

1 2 3 4
4 7 1 5
5 6 2 8
3 2 4 9

My solution in C is below (it solved all test cases):

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){  
  int n,i,j,x,circles;
  int vector[1000][1000];
  int temp,temp2;

  scanf("%d",&n);

  for (i=0;i<n;i++){
    for (j=0;j<n;j++){
      scanf("%d",&x);
      vector[i][j]=x;
    }
  }

  for (circles=0;circles<n/2;circles++){
    temp = vector[circles][circles];
    if (circles%2==0){
      for (j=circles;j<n-1-circles;j++){
        temp2 = vector[circles][j+1];
        vector[circles][j+1] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
      for (i=circles;i<n-1-circles;i++){
        temp2 = vector[i+1][n-1-circles];
        vector[i+1][n-1-circles] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
      for (j=n-1-circles;j>circles;j--){
        temp2 = vector[n-1-circles][j-1];
        vector[n-1-circles][j-1] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
      for (i=n-1-circles;i>circles;i--){
        temp2 = vector[i-1][circles];
        vector[i-1][circles] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
    }
    else{
      for (i=circles;i<n-1-circles;i++){
        temp2 = vector[i+1][circles];
        vector[i+1][circles] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
      for (j=circles;j<n-1-circles;j++){
        temp2 = vector[n-1-circles][j+1];
        vector[n-1-circles][j+1] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }

      for (i=n-1-circles;i>circles;i--){
        temp2 = vector[i-1][n-1-circles];
        vector[i-1][n-1-circles] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }
      
      for (j=n-1-circles;j>circles;j--){
        temp2 = vector[circles][j-1];
        vector[circles][j-1] = temp;
        temp = temp2;
      }    

    }
  }

  for (i=0;i<n;i++){
    for (j=0;j<n;j++){
      printf("%d",vector[i][j]);
      if (j<n-1)
        printf(" ");
    }
    if (i<n-1)
      printf("n");
  }

  return 0;
}

One thought on “Amazon CodeNinja Programming Contest

  1. Shubham

    i hav a much shorter program i guess
    (for anti-cloclwise rotation)
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    int min;
    int main() {
    long int r,c;
    int i,j,m,x,w,z,f;
    long int t,
    a[101][101];
    int rec(long int a[101][101],int r,int c,long int t);
    scanf(“%ld%ld%ld”,&r,&c,&t);
    for(i=1;i<=r;i++)
    for(j=1;j<=c;j++)
    scanf("%ld",&a[i][j]);
    if(c<r)
    min=c;
    else
    min=r;
    rec(a,r,c,t);
    return 0;
    }
    int rec(long int a[101][101],int r,int c,long int t)
    {
    long int b[101][101];
    int i,j,m,x,w,z,f;
    if(t==0)
    {
    for(i=1;i<=r;i++)
    {
    for(j=1;j<=c;j++)
    {
    printf("%ld ",a[i][j]);}printf("\n");
    }return 0;
    }
    else
    {
    i=1;
    while(i<=min/2)
    {j=i;
    while(j<(c-i+1)) //left
    {
    b[i][j]=a[i][j+1];
    ++j;
    }
    x=i;
    while(x<(r+1-i))//down
    {b[x+1][i]=a[x][i];
    ++x;
    }
    z=i;
    while(z<(c+1-i))//right
    {
    b[r-i+1][z+1]=a[r-i+1][z];
    ++z;
    }
    z=i;
    while(z<r+1-i)//up
    {
    b[z][c+1-i]=a[z+1][c+1-i];
    ++z;
    }
    ++i;
    }
    }
    return rec(b,r,c,t-1);
    }

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