ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Links

This page contains some links to help you become familiar with and prepared for the contest.

The ACM ICPC Web Site

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.

The ACM North Central North America Regional Web Site

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.

The ACM ICPC Problem Set Archive

Although not up to date, this is a very inclusive listing and links to past problem sets of both regional and final contests.

The Valladolid Programming Contest Site

A programming contest site with problems similar to those of the ACM-ICPC, complete with many past problem sets and an online judging program.

A good resource for choosing problems of a specific type can be found at shygypsy.com/acm. You can search for problems matching a certain description or varying difficulty level by a regular expression.