Fwd: query about ACM-HK CPC

[Henry Hong-Ning Dai]

Dear all,

Hope this mail can answer some of your questions.

Regards,
Henry

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WANG Fu Lee Philips <pw...@cihe.edu.hk>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: query about ACM-HK CPC
To: Henry Hong-Ning Dai <hndai...@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dr. Wai-Shing Ho" <ws...@cs.hku.hk>, "tlw...@ied.edu.hk" <tlw...@ied.edu.hk>

Dear Henry,

 

No. there is no prescribed order to solve the problems.  Your team can solve the problems in any order.  You can work on any number of problems simultaneously.  You can refer to ACM-ICPC website for more rules.

 

We use the same system as ICPC.  You can test your program with the submission system and compare your result with the one stored in system for some sample cases.  If you are confident about your solution, then you can submit it.  The judge will try more cases and may read your code to determine the correctness of your program.  Don’t submit solution if you still have some unsolved cases.  As the number and time of submissions will be used for calculation of ranking.

 

You can bring any paper materials to the contest venue.  However, you are not allowed to use any electronic device.  If you have some e-book, you better print it before your come.

***To Wai-Shing and TL: If I miss anything, please feel free to provide supplementary information.

 

Thanks

 

Philips

 

From: Henry Hong-Ning Dai [mailto:hndai...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:08 PM

To: WANG Fu Lee Philips
Subject: Re: query about ACM-HK CPC

 

Dear Philips,

Thank you very much. I have several questions (raised by my students) about the contest:

1) What is the exact procedure to solve the six given problems? Is it true that we must solve these problems one by one? In particular,  it means that we can move to the next problem only when we solve one problem successfully? Or can we pick up a problem arbitrarily and solve it?

2) How to judge a solution? We know that we can verify the solutions to some UVa problems online. But how about the problems in ACM-HK contest?

3) What can we bring to the contest venue? Can we bring some reference books (printed) to the contest? Can we bring some e-books or e-codes (e.g., some C source codes) in a USB flash drive?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Henry