ACM Programming Contest Practice (Fall 2006)

Announcements

Wed Oct 4, 2006	Friday sessions are in 1066 Kemper Hall. 4-5:30pm. Will be going over Last Year's Problem Sets.
Mon Oct 2, 2006	Webpage created. Last year's problems. Online Judge + problem sets. Book: Programming Challenges. Practice Competition (Individual), Oct. 15th, 12 - 6pm.

Introduction

This webpage is to provide some guidance in training for the ACM Regional Competition on Nov. 11th 2006. Every week, we will post two to three problems on a specific topic for you (and me) to try.

Professor Vladimir Filkov, Professor Charles Martel and Professor Nina Amenta will be the coaches for this year.

Most problems here will be taken from the Valladolid website unless otherwise noted. You can register with their site and have them judge your program.

These problems are designed to be solvable in less than five hours. If you find yourself taking more than two hours on one problem, you may be going at it the wrong way. Please be honest with yourself and do not take solutions from other websites (except for comparison or reference when needed).

The contest itself have running time and memory constraints, so try to design your solutions for accuracy and keep in mind efficiency. Good Luck!

Useful Information

More to come.