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Another task where CodeGym solution is too complicated and long, unfortunately validator does not take different right solution like valid.

Codegym needs to read these comments -- advanced people are leaving due to frustration --- there is a fine line between learning and punishing difficulty / translation / understanding --- personally I don't want to struggle and sweat it out that much in my personal Skill Up time )) You do you

Actually is not so complicated: 1. Read file names and create BufferedReaders for them; 2. Create two lists (would be easier to compare the strings); 3. Collect the lines from the files to lists; 4. Create a loop with three conditions (if-elseif-elseif): 1) if the lines from the lists are equal the create the Type.Same and add it to the lines; 2) if the second list (built based on the second file) does NOT containt the element from the first list then create a Type.REMOVED; 3) if the first list (built based on the first file) does NOT containt the element from the second list then create a Type.ADDED; 5. Two more loops are needed just two finish the iterations if the created indexes are smaller than lists size; 1) if first index is smaller than first list size then iterate and add new lines with Type.REMOVED 2) if second index is smaller than second list size then iterate and add new lines with Type.ADDED. You'll have to think about how to iterate through the main loop.

The task description is a mess... Please clarify: 1. What kind of comparison we need to implement? Sequential: Compare line1 of both files, then line2 of both files, or Random: all lines of file1 with all lines of file2? 2. If only one character of lines is differ how we count that? REMOVED? ADDED? 3. What if both files contains same text on different lines(in file1 is line 1, but in file2 is line 4), how we count that situation? REMOVED? ADDED?

This task is completely unclear. I wouldn't waste my time.

It was not easy at all!! At beginning I don't know what's going on, what I'll have do. A few hours reading help section, after that when I haven't computer access I write code with pen and paper and thats what help me understand and create my algorithm. Programmers must have guts and balls. Psychic is crucial in this learning process. Sometimes is hard, not to give up. But remember, if you are on this level, you can be programmer sooner or later!! Don't give up.

I´ve just see my work being accepted. I made it with 2 ArrayLists and one " for" loop with some "if"s and "else if"s, 9 lines of code more then CodeGym. I just have one question, How guys can see how many times it was completed??? On my page does not appears such stats. ????????????

8 hours in, on the 2nd day of battling with task 1. Total it's 14 hours on task 1. Trying again tomorrow, still very stuck😭

I'm 6 hours in🤣😂... Guess what? Still super stuck😂

Incredibly confusing task conditions but somehow I got this one on my first attempt! Always good to check the official solution afterwards anyway to see if there are a few coding shortcuts, and yes there were!