Programming Contest Practices

• (5 Sep 2017)
  "Follow the Rules" problems (handout)
  

  Live Archive Problems:
  • 4920: Mad Scientist
  • 6099: LRU Caching
  • 6100: Jugglefest
  • 6493: Round Robin
  • 5934: Sokoban
  • 5935: Crash and Go(relians)
  • 4170: The Bridges of San Motchi

• (19 Sep 2017)
  Bit Manipulation Techiques
  Live Archive Problems:

  • 3849: Presistent Bits
  • 7357: Pyro Tubes
  • 6492: Welcome Party,
  • 7579: Clock Breaking (world finals)
  
  For a list of related problems in an older system (and perhaps elsewhere in Live Archive), see this list curated from Competitive Programming 3 book.

• (29 Sep 2017)
  To get feeling for having a group of problems and trying to analyze/triage them, we began examining the full set of problems from the 2014 North American Online Qualifier. (That is the practice contest that we will have this year on Saturday, October 7, from 11:00-4:00.)

  full problem set