Fall 2011 UCSD Programming Team

Fall 2011 UCSD Programming Team

Co-Captains Faculty Coach Graduate Coach

Van Lam and Haoxi Fan Prof. Michael Taylor Mohammad Moghimi, Keliang Zhao and Do-Kyum Kim

Members

YOUR NAME HERE
TRY OUT FOR THE TEAM!

Fall 2011 UCSD Programming Team

Co-Captains	Faculty Coach	Graduate Coach
Van Lam and Haoxi Fan	Prof. Michael Taylor	Mohammad Moghimi, Keliang Zhao and Do-Kyum Kim

	Members
	YOUR NAME HERE TRY OUT FOR THE TEAM!

* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (October 15, 2011)

La Jolla, CA -- Zhe Fu triumphs over field of 53 contestants in Fall Contest;
Lam, Pi, Feng, and Maguffee round out the top 5.
Detailed results here.

Calendar
Tryout Contest, First Round
Saturday Oct 15th, 2011
11:30a to 5:30p
Location: Basement of CSE Building (EBU3B B260)
Prizes awarded by Mike Dini.
Contact Info:

Come compete against the rest of UCSD to see how you measure up! FREE PIZZA!

Note, to participate, do the following things:

1. Sign up right away for an account on the uva online judging site.
    There may be a delay in the signup notification process, so do it right away.
    The website is sometimes pokey as well.
     (Put "0" for online judge id.)

2. Fill out this Tryout Contest First Round Registration Form with your account name.

3. Fill out this Contestant Interest form if you have not already.

4. Using your account, we also recommend you practice on some or all
of the following problems:
Marvelous Mazes, The Falling Leaves, House of Santa Claus, and Free Spots.

Team Practices, to be announced;
Typically Saturdays leading up to contest, and maybe one sunday. (e.g. Oct 22, Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 6)

ACM Southern California Regionals Competition
Beat CalTech and Harvey Mudd (and others)
Saturday Nov 12, 2011
Riverside, CA

ACM Worlds
Beat Russia's Saint Petersburg State University, China's Tsinghua University, and MIT (and others)
May 14-18, 2012
Warsaw, Poland !!!

PRIZES

1st $1000

2nd $700

3rd $500

4th $300

5th $200

6th-10th     $100

Sponsored by

With academic support from
UCSD
Department of
Computer Science and Engineering
and Academic Computing Services

Eligibility
You are eligible to participate in the UCSD contests if you meet all of the following requirements:

If you place at the UCSD contest you must be willing to represent UCSD at the ACM Southern California Regional Programming Contest on Saturday Nov. 12, 2011, and in the worlds, if we make it.
-AND-

You are a part time (greater than 50%) or full time UCSD student, and bring your valid UCSD student ID with you to the contest.
-AND-

One or more of the following holds:

You started college in 2007 or later.
You were born in 1988 or later.

One goal of this tryout contest (besides having fun) is to create teams to represent
UCSD at the ACM Programming Contest on Nov 12, 2011.
If you plan to place at the UCSD contest, please keep Nov 12, 2011 free on your calendar.

HINTS ABOUT THE TRYOUT CONTEST

1. A little bit of practice goes a long way. Practice solving questions at the uva online judge site, that you signed up for above.

2. A large part of the tryout contest is to know how to test your own program and how to catch the end cases.
The above website will allow you to practice a few problems and the automated judging system will let you know if you missed something (just like at the real contest).

3. In this contest, you will be competing individually.

4. There is no cost for participating.

Tryout Contest Information

Registration starts at 11:30am.
Practice session begins at ~11:45am and contest begins at 12:30.
You must be at the tryout contest by 12:30pm in order to compete.
The programming part of the contest will last for approximately 4 hours.
There will be around 5-7 questions to solve.

A pizza order will arrive around 1pm.

Teams will be formed from the top finishers to compete in the 2011 ACM Southern California Programming Contest on November 12th at Riverside Community College.

Details

Languages: You can program in either C, C++ or Java

Editors: Emacs, Vi, etc...

Food: Pizza will be provided for everyone.

Official Instructions

Make sure you bring your programming language, algorithm, math, geometry, graphics, and reference books and notes with you to the contest. You cannot access any material over the internet. You can only use the default help system, javadocs, etc... on the default computer setup we provide for you. You can use any written material or books you bring with you.

Here are some tips and hints for competing and coding in the contest. These will not be given out at the contest, so you probably want to print these out and bring them with you (you will not be able to access the internet at the contest).

C++ and Geometry Hints
Java Hints

Tips for competing in the contest

Check out the practice problems from past contests to prepare for the contest:

Results from Fall 2010 Contest

Results from Fall 2009 Contest

Results from Fall 2007 Contest

Results from Fall 2006 Contest

Results from Fall 2005 Contest

Results from Spring 2006 Contest

Results from Fall 1999 Contest

Results from Spring 2000 Contest

Results from Fall 2000 Contest