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ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest
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Links
This page contains some links to help you become familiar with and
prepared for the contest.
This is the official website of the contest, and is a must visit for those
new to the contest. The contest is fully explained, and a little digging
in the History and Regional sections will yield problems sets from past
Finals and Regional Contests. Problems from the regional contests tend
to be easier than those from the World Finals.
This is the official website for our regional contest. The regional contest
is hosted at a number of satellite sites around the region. We
have been participating at the UW-Parkside site in Kenosha.
The number of teams in a given region that are allowed to advance to the
world finals is proportional to the number of teams participating in that
particular region. Historically, three teams from our region have advanced
to the world finals. These are the top teams from the regional competition
with the restriction that from any given institution at most one team can
continue. Since we started participating in 2001, our top team has
always been able to advance to the world finals.
A programming contest site with problems similar to those of the
ACM-ICPC, including many past problem sets and an online judging
program. We will draw many of our practice problems from here.
Some useful related links are:
This site provides an online judge for many actual ICPC problems from
2000 and later, both from regionals around the world, and from the
world finals themselves. Problems are grouped both geographically and
by year.
One of the best programming competition sites. International
competitions are hosted by the site approximately every other week. The
problems avoid some of the challenges of ICPC (e.g. I/O issues), but
provide more practice in other areas (e.g. developing good test
cases). As with UVa, registration is free and there is a large
database of problems to practice with.
Two links of particular note at the site are:
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Problem set analyses
which often provide solutions (or at least hints) for the problems
in the archive; and
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Algorithm tutorials
which provide nice introductions to many algorithmic or
mathematical topics that commonly arise in contest problems.
A good set of mathematical problems with varying levels of difficulty.
Some can be solved by hand, most require a computer. The format is
quite different from the sites above; submissions consist not of
programs to solve the problem, but a single 10 digit number that is
the answer to a particular instance of the problem.
Other Popular Programming Competitions
In recent years several ICPC-like programming competitions have emerged.
Here is a list of popular ones, both past and present, including some
sponsored by local companies.
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