ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM Regional Programming Contest

• Teams of three students compete to solve programming problems
• Qualifier Competition – Saturday September 24, 12-5pm, Hayes 311
• East Central Regional Competition) – November 4-5, Youngstown State University

Kattis Practice Site

• You should practice for the contest at an open contest site: https://open.kattis.com/
  • Go to the site
  • Create an account or log in with one of the socal apps
  • Select a problem, write the code, and submit the program source file and wait while it is Judged.
  • You will receive a ranking.
  • There are language specific instructions for the site here: Kattis Help.
    You will want to use C++, Java, or Python to be ready for the regional contest.
  • Please note that you will be submitting COMPLETE programs. All input and output is done using the standard streams (cin and cout in C++).
  • Below is a typical solution for a problem asking for a integer, and which must print out that many “Abracadabra”s.

<br />#include &lt;iostream&gt; using namespace std;

int main() { int n; cin &gt;&gt; n; for (int i=1 ; i &lt;= n ; i++) { cout &lt;&lt; i &lt;&lt; " Abracadabra" &lt;&lt; endl;; } return 0; }<br />

Qualifiers

Qualifier Site (September 24, 11:30am – 5:30 pm)

• This will be in Hayes 311
• Bring any referance material, you may also use the Web for reference (not for solutions)
• The site is https://naq16.kattis.com/
• You will recieve an account with instructions prior to the contest.

Information

• Contest Information
• Past problems