Open tryouts for this year’s ACM Scholastic Programming Team will be held on Thursday, October 15th in the University Crossings 151 Computer Lab. Tryouts will be 90 minutes long. In order to accommodate class schedules, the tryout period will be from 3:00-5:00 PM. If you are an experienced/highly capable programmer, and would like an opportunity to use your skills for a chance at international competition, please try out for a team. Here are some important details:
Teams of 3 students will be chosen to represent Drexel at two events in which we will participate in the near future.
- The first is The CCSC-E programming contest, held at Villanova on the morning of Sat, Oct. 31. This is a short train ride from Philly and will basically use up the morning. Teams must register not later than Oct. 16. It is not known whether we will be able to enter more than one team.
- The ACM Regional will be at Washington College on Sat. Nov 7 — this will be an all-day affair, and we have 2 teams entered.
The competition will involve more than 150 teams and 75 universities from the mid-Atlantic region, ranging from the eastern halves of Pennsylvania and Maryland and central New Jersey through the northern half of North Carolina. The top several schools in the regional competition will advance to the International Finals Feb. 1-6 in Harbin, China.
All programming will be done in C, C++, or Java.
In team competition, each team shares one PC, and develops solutions as quickly and accurately as possible for a set of problems. Our tryouts will be held to help find individual programmers who can solve problems quickly and accurately in a contest environment.
Eligible participants in the contest are students enrolled for at least half-time study (as well as undergraduate students on co-op assignment), who began college study in 2005 or later and were born in 1986 or later. Complete policies and procedures are explained at http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/regionals/About.htm . You don’t have to be a senior! Some graduate students may be eligible! You don’t have to be a computer science or software engineering major!
You can read more about the contest at the websites shown below.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming Contest site: http://www.radford.edu/~acm/midatl/index.html
International Collegiate Programming Contest: http://acm.baylor.edu/icpc
Want some practice? Sample programs from previous competitions can be found online at
http://www.programming-challenges.com which has an automated judge to check your programs for correctness.
There is also an automated “programming contest judge” website at the Universidad de Vallodolid (http://online-judge.uva.es/problemset/) which has quite an extensive set of problems. Should you wish to utilize these sites, you will need to create contestant accounts for yourself.
See, for instance, the “Stacks of Flapjacks” problem, at
http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110402&format=html
Please direct further inquiries to Dr. Popyack.