Several references are included here as links to outside sources. Students are
encouraged to explore these links.
http://www.acm.org/contest
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc
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The first link redirects to the baylor site. This is the page for the ACM
programming contests. Click on "Upcoming Regionals," then "The 2004 ACM
East Central North America Programming Contest" to learn more about the
regional contest that we travel to. The contest date is November 6. Click
on "Prep" to learn about the contest rules.
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http://www.programming-challenges.com
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This is the book's website. You can create an account and submit your
solved book problems to the site to verify that they are correct. There
are 112 problems in all.
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http://acm.uva.es/problemset
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This is an online site for practicing problems. Students are encouraged to
register and submit code for judging to get the feel for programming for
contests. In class, the TA provided an outdated description of how to
submit code for testing to this site. Whoops! It looks like they now have
a nice web interface. The 3n+1 Problem is the first problem in Volume 1.
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http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/stl_index_cat.html
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The first link is SGI's documentation page for the STL in C++. The second
link is simply the "Index by Category." Since electronic sources are not
allowed at programming contests, students should consider printing
documentation of favorite STL containers such as vector, list, stack, queue,
deque, etc, and algorithms such as sort. This documentation will be very
useful at the contest.
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