WU|ACM

Programming Contests

Fridays at 2:00 pm in the CEC Sparc Lab.

Description

The WU|ACM Programming Contests are weekly programming contests sponsored by the Washington University student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and based on the International Collegiate Programming Contest. In the WU|ACM version of these contests, teams of up to two will compete for 90 minutes to solve one or two programming challenges. Any computer language can be used, provided that it can read from and write to text files. Solutions will be evaluated based on how quickly they are coded; no subjective evaluation of the "quality" of the code will be used.

Prizes will be awarded to the first place team at each event, and a grand prize willl be awarded to the team with the best record over the course of the semester.

If this sounds like fun, and you are free from 2:00 - 4:00 pm on Fridays, please register either yourself or a team below. The first contest will be held on Friday, February 21, 2003.

Rules

The rules are modeled after the rules of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. We have summarized them below, but we reserve the right to modify them or refer to the ICPC's rules for guidance.

Teams of one or two students, faculty, or staff may participate in the contest.
The contest duration is 90 minutes. This is the maximum amount of time that participants will be able to submit solutions for judging. It is assumed by the judges that many teams will finish in much less than the full 90 minutes.
Submissions will be evaluated based on elapsed time. If there are multiple problems, teams are evauluated by the total number of problems completed. In the case of a tie, the teams will be evaluated based on the time needed to complete the problems.
The use of online materials is restricted. Only online language resources such as the java api will be allowed. Any printed reference materials are allowed.
Each team will have to share one terminal.
Any programming language is allowed, provided that it can read from and write to text files. However, if the judges cannot compile or run your code, they will not be able to evaluate it. As a general rule of thumb, if you can compile and run it on a CEC machine, we can as well. You may be asked to provide a makefile with your code.
Use of external libraries is restricted. With one exception, outside libraries are not allowed. However, because Java file input is so rudimentary, the use of the ACMIO class is allowed.
The problem description will list the expected file names of your source file and the input and output files. If you do not follow these guidlines, your submission may not be accepted. Note that the naming conventions used for these files might differ from the naming conventions you normally use.

Past Contests

18 April 2003

Contest Results

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11 April 2003

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04 April 2003

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28 March 2003

Contest Results

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21 March 2003

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14 March 2003

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21 February 2003: Off Base

Contest Results

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Reference Implementation: OffBase.java (uses the ACMIO class)