ACM programming contest?
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does anyone here has enter to that contest?, any experience anyone? "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]
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does anyone here has enter to that contest?, any experience anyone? "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]
I've participated in two local ACM contests. Basically what you need is a math wiz and two programmers. The math wiz is needed for the analytical skill. The team allocates a programmer on each problem. The math wiz and the programmer for a specific problem then goes through the problem, finds the solution, and then the programmer implements the solution. While he implements it, the other programmer goes through his next problem with the math wiz. Iterate until done. This is what the "pros" did, and they were very effective indeed. Also, they are very keen on graph problems and numerical problems, so keep your graph skills up to date. The other problems are of variying sorts. Please have a look at this resource: http://acm.uva.es/problemset/[^]. It contains 1300 problems which you can try to solve. It's an automatic system, so you mail your code to an automated compiler which will analyze your programs output. You are then sent a reply saying yes or no. Please try it out, you'll find it very addictive! :) -- standing so tall, the ground behind no trespassers, on every floor a garden swing, and another door she makes it clear, that everything is hers A place of abode, not far from here, Ms. Van de Veer
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I've participated in two local ACM contests. Basically what you need is a math wiz and two programmers. The math wiz is needed for the analytical skill. The team allocates a programmer on each problem. The math wiz and the programmer for a specific problem then goes through the problem, finds the solution, and then the programmer implements the solution. While he implements it, the other programmer goes through his next problem with the math wiz. Iterate until done. This is what the "pros" did, and they were very effective indeed. Also, they are very keen on graph problems and numerical problems, so keep your graph skills up to date. The other problems are of variying sorts. Please have a look at this resource: http://acm.uva.es/problemset/[^]. It contains 1300 problems which you can try to solve. It's an automatic system, so you mail your code to an automated compiler which will analyze your programs output. You are then sent a reply saying yes or no. Please try it out, you'll find it very addictive! :) -- standing so tall, the ground behind no trespassers, on every floor a garden swing, and another door she makes it clear, that everything is hers A place of abode, not far from here, Ms. Van de Veer
thanks i`ll try it out, its going to be a local contest by the end of the year, so im thinking in get in. thanks for the link "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]
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does anyone here has enter to that contest?, any experience anyone? "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]
Yup, and in fact there is one at our University is taking place tomorrow. I think there are about 20 teams coming our way, so it aught to be a good time. I personally really enjoy them. The competition is nice, it’s always cool to meet new people and then afterwards hearing about how they approached the same problems is very interesting. cheers, -B
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does anyone here has enter to that contest?, any experience anyone? "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]
I did it twice in college (4 years ago). It was fun. Search around on the ACM website (or google) for sample problems from previous projects. Some of the ones I remember had to do with the calendar. It started off explaining the history of the calendar, and the occasional days that they had to skip while fine tuning leap year and all that (they skipped a couple days a few centuries ago). Then they give you some dates, and then your program needs to spit out what day of the week that would have been. Another problem was a turn based, checkers type game. You were given a set of input, and then you had to figure out who won. They provide all the rules for the game. I recommend you try it. I had my doubts going into it, but it was fun, and I participated in it again the next year.