Division I - 2nd Place
Division I - 3rd Place
Division II - 1st Place
Division II - 2nd Place
The Calgary Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) provides post-secondary students in Calgary with the opportunity to excel in an ACM ICPC-style programming competition. Students test their aptitude and knowledge against a set of programming puzzles requiring problem-solving, programming, math, and teamwork skills. Teams are ranked according to the number of problems solved within four hours. The CCPC is sponsored by Synopsys and provides a platform for the next generation of computing professionals to pursue excellence. Kattis has graciously sponsored the judging platform.
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- Register on Eventbrite (closes on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 11:30pm MST)
- Enrolled in a post-secondary institution in Calgary, Alberta (undergraduate or graduate)
- In teams of 1 to 3 members
- Participating in the same division as everyone else on their team
- (Extra requirement for Division 2) Students who have not taken (or not currently taking) a data structures course,
e.g. CPSC 319/331
- Saturday, March 17, 2018 from 10:00am - 6:00pm (coffee and lunch will be provided)
- University of Calgary, ICT 102 and Math Sciences (map)
- Suggested parking: Math Sciences parking lot, 612 Campus Pl NW
- Student ID
- Résumé for Synopsys (intern and full-time positions)
- Any paper notes, code or textbooks
- Scrap paper and pencils/pens
For each problem, your program will be given input describing a test case. It must then provide appropriate output giving the answer to whatever problem was posed. Once you have written a solution to the problem, you must submit the solution on Kattis. Your code will be subject to a large battery of tests. If your code returns correct output on every test case and runs within time and memory limits, the solution is accepted. Otherwise, it will be rejected. You will be told how your program failed, but will not be given details of the failed test case.
Official Rules:
- Accepted programming languages are C, C++, Java, Python 2, Python 3
- Input from standard in, output to standard out
- Each team has access to exactly one computer to be used for writing, testing, and submitting code solutions
- Code solutions can be printed to debug them on paper and free up the computer
- Internet access is restricted to standard library and language documentation, as well as the contest website
- Any standard system software may be used during the contest
- Teams have unlimited access to any written material they provide, such as textbooks, notes, and printed example code
- Use of electronic devices other than the computer is strictly prohibited
- Teams are ranked according to which has solved the most problems, with ties broken by time taken to solve
- Competitor check-in
- Coffee served
- Receive your team logins
- Presentation by Synopsys
- Overview of rules and instructions
- Teams are assigned a computer and login information
- Practice contest to familiarize competitors with contest system
- Lunch is served
- Official contest begins
- Scoreboard will be frozen for the final hour so winners are not known until later presentation
- Presentation of problem statistics (number of attempts, successes, etc.)
- Presentation by Synopsys
- Announcement of winners and presentation of prizes
- Mingling with Synopsys employees and pizza served
- The Competitive Programming Club meets every Wednesday from 6:00 - 8:00pm in MS 119 for coaching and practice
- Codeforces and UVa Online Judge contain many programming puzzles for self-directed practice
- Follow CPC on Twitter to ask questions or participate in discussion under the #ccpc hashtag
- Read the problems, identify the easiest ones, and solve them first
- If you're having trouble identifying easy problems, look at the scoreboard to see what others are solving
- Computer time is very valuable, so sketch out your program on paper before coding it (unless it's trivially simple)
- Working together on a problem is usually a bad idea and just leads to confusion; assign problems, work in parallel
- Debugging a program on paper is more effective than sticking print statements everywhere, 99% of the time
- Come up with your own test cases for your program, especially edge cases
- Have fun!
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