UofA Programming Contest Home Page

Welcome to the web site for the University of Alberta programming contest team.

People

These are some of the people recently involved in programming club: Saber Khakpash, Amir Malekzadeh and Navid Zolghadr are team Alberta Black. They participated in the 2011 world finals and qualified again for the 2012 finals. Seyed Sina Khankhajeh, David Szepesvari, Kevin Barabash are team Alberta Red. They participated in both ACPC and regionals this year. Henry Brausen and Jason Yuan are regular attendees. Martin Müller is the current coach, and Mohammad Salavatipour and Sumudu Fernando are co-coaches. Sumudu is a two time world finalist. Babak Behsaz helps with running training contests for our world finals preparation. Zac Friggstad is a former coach and two time world finalist who recently graduated and is now a Postdoc at Waterloo. Roshan Shariff and Travis Dick are two time world finalists and are also still at UofA.

Resources for Getting Started

See here.

Cmput 403

You can do programming problems and get course credit for it! For more information see here.

2011/2012 ACM ICPC Competitions

ACPC

Alberta Black won! See the report. ACPC was organized by the University of Calgary programming club this year. See the contest and the scoreboard.

Regionals

Regionals were in Edmonton this year. Alberta Black won! See the report, our local contest page, the regional contest information and the scoreboard.

World finals

We will go to world finals in Warsaw, Poland!

Quick Updates for 2009-2011

More details to follow.

2010/2011

Alberta 1 with Saber Khakpash, Amir Malekzadeh and Navid Zolghadr and Alberta2 win first and second at the 2010 ACPC. See the contest and the report.

Alberta 1 with Saber Khakpash, Amir Malekzadeh and Navid Zolghadr wins the 2010 regionals by solving 9 out of 9 problems! Alberta2 in 7th place. See the report and the scoreboard.

4 problems solved at 2011 world finals, 42nd place out of 104 teams. See the report.

2009/2010

Alberta 1 with Travis Dick, Roshan Shariff, and Gagan Sidhu win the 2009 ACPC. scoreboard.

Alberta 1, with a reinforced team of Travis Dick, Roshan Shariff, and Iain Ireland, wins the 2009 regionals! Alberta 2 in 5th place. See the report and the scoreboard. They went on to World Finals in Harbin, China in 2010 and got a honorable mention.

2008/2009

UAlberta teams end out of the medal range at the 2008 ACPC. scoreboard.

Alberta 1 did a lot better when it counts at the regionals. Our rookie team is the only one to solve 5 problems. scoreboard. Roshan Shariff, Travis Dick, and Nicholas Merritt earn a trip to World finals in Stockholm in 2009 and got a honorable mention.

Previous Home Page

The content below is from 2008; to be updated.

UofA 2008 team, World Finals: Steven Soneff (Electrical Engineering), Keving Waugh (Computing Science), Martin Müller (Coach), Devin Doucette (Software Engineering). Finished 23rd in the World. (see the ACM ICPC web site)

Each year the Department of Computing Science is represented in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest by a team of undegraduate and graduate students, coached by Martin Müller.

For more information about participation in past contests, please see Piotr Rudnicki's contest pages. There you will find past local contests we have run and links to on-line contests in which you can participate anytime.

The Programming Club meets at 3:00PM on Fridays in Algorithmics Lab, CSC 217. Show up and discuss problem statements, descriptions, methods of attack, as well as sample solutions.

The U of A Code Archive
The code archive includes prewritten implementations (in C or C++) of several common algorithms. As such, it is only for local use.

The Problem Archive
There used to be such an entry here but it has poofed into thin air.
The problem archive includes descriptions, classifications, solutions and test data for a number of problems we have used either for contests or for practice in the past. Please contact us if you have problems to submit to our archive, or if you want to combine training resources.

Associations

The University of Waterloo holds many training sessions and local contests during the year. We frequently train together, share problems, and co-host contests.
The University of Valladolid runs both a problem set archive with an online judge, allowing students to solve and submit problems, and a contest hosting service, allowing contests to be run over the Internet.
Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia is setting up a nice problem set archive with an online judge. They also occasionally host real time Internet contests.
The Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) also hosts a problem archive with an online judge. The site is maintained by Sphere Research Labs based in Gdynia, Poland.