Meeting for the ACM programming competition
James Hales
undergraduate-level competition that's held every year. In the
competition, teams of three share one computer, and are given 5 hours
to solve a number of programming-related problems. Solutions are
submitted in the form of computer programs, typically written in C,
C++ or Java. Last year 7109 teams from 1838 universities competed.
There will be an information session about the ACM programming
competition this Tuesday at 1:30pm in the first floor seminar room
(room 1.24). It will cover information about the competition in
general, and information about what is going to happen this year with
respect to training sessions and so on. New-comers and past
participants should both attend.
I would especially like to encourage first and second year students to
participate in the competition, because I know how few first year
students did it last year. Last year it was more than worth it just
for the excellent tutorials and training sessions organised by Tim and
Luigi in the lead-up to the competition. If you enjoy programming and
want to improve, you should definitely give it a shot. First year
students: if you're disappointed by how easy Java and (shudder) Web
Tech is, come along. Second year students: if you enjoy Data
Structures and Algorithms, the programming competition is /sort of/
like that, but better.
A discussion about this meeting can be found in the csforum, at:
<https://secure.csse.uwa.edu.au/run/csforum?show=y&a=116>