How to setup Competitive programming Helper in VSCode

This is a very handy tool if you are solving problems on competitive sites like HackerRank, HackerEarth, Codeforces etc. Saves you considerable amount of time while debugging your code.

What you need :

• Competetive programmer vscode extension
• Competetive Companion chrome extension

Steps after installing above pieces of software:

• In your vscode open the folder where you want to solve the problem.
• Go to the problem page you want to practice/solve/whatever (i will be showing codeforces).
• Now press the green plus sign extension (that comes after installing Competetive Companian extension).

• Go to vscode where you will be prompted to select your language of choice. A file with the problem-name.lang-extension will be created, with testing tab open adjacent.

• Run using Run All button.

Features

• The default test cases are preloaded.
• You can run the file with few clicks.
• Can add custom test cases with +New button.
• Easy to use.

Sources:
https://github.com/agrawal-d/cph
https://github.com/jmerle/competitive-companion
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