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LinksThis page contains some links to help you become familiar with and prepared for the contest.
The ICPC Web SiteThis 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 into 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 North Central North America Regional Web SiteThis is the official website for our regional contest. The regional contest is hosted at a number of satellite sites around the region. In recent years we have been participating at the Epic site in Verona. The number of teams in a given region that are allowed to advance to the world finals is partly determined by 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.
CodeforcesA social network kind-of website offering a platform to organize, run, and discuss ICPC-like programming contests. The site has been very active in recent years.
AtCoderAtcoder contains a lot of Adhoc problems as well as nice DP and Math problems. It is the second best individual contest website these days.
KATCL ICPC TemplateKTH's ICPC team reference document. It consists of 25 pages of copy-pasteable C++ code, for use in ICPC-style programming competitions. You can also use this to customize your own template.
ICPC Live Problem ArchiveThis 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.
USA Computing OlympiadThe USACO prepares US students for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Their training pages provide instruction and practice problems to improve programming and problem-solving skills that are also useful for the ICPC.
Competitive Programmer's HandbookTextbook by Antti Laaksonen to help students prepare for IOI and ICPC.
Project EulerA 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 CompetitionsIn recent years several ICPC-like programming competitions and hackathons have emerged. Here is a list of popular ones, both past and present, including some sponsored by local companies.
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