HS Computing Club

Next meeting

Unfortunately, I am unable to run the HS Computing Club in the 2012-13 academic year. If anything changes I will post the news here.

Past meetings

We meet on Saturdays, at 11:00 am in Computing Science Center (CSC) 2-49, UofA Campus . (Please note different time and room than last year, the building is the same.) If you come by car then the most convenient parking is either Stadium or Windsor car parkade.

The goal of our meetings is to prepare high-school (and, if we find any, junior high-school) students for problem solving competitions like Canadian Computing Competition. The 2012 Stage 1 of CCC is on February 28.

Be prepared to discuss problems from Stage 1 of past CCC. Please bring a problem to share. Have a look at some easier problems from past Iverson exams at UofA.

At each meeting we will look at a set of problems and discuss their solutions. We are not planning to use computers during these meetings. The participants are encouraged to bring problems which they tried to solve and either want to share or need help with.

• The 2011-12 season.
• The 2010-11 season.

Email piotr@cs.ualberta.ca if you have questions.

Contests and Olympiads

• Canadian Computing Competition
• USACO programming competition
• IOI - International Olympiad in Informatics
• Central European Olympiad in Informatics

• TopCoder material analysing problems and algorithms. An excellent tutorial stuff, however, you need to register before you can see all the interesting stuff. Note that participation in the TopCoder contests may be very frustrating for beginners but it is a great practice for the ones in the know.

Problem Sets with on-line judging

• USACO Contest Gateway

• University of Valladolid, Spain
• Ural State University, Russia
• Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
• Zhejiang University, China

Material

Questions? email: piotr@cs.ualberta.ca