UofA Programming Contest Home Page

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.