Programming Contest Practices

• (30 Aug 2016)
  Bit Manipulation Techiques
  Live Archive Problems: 3849, 6492, 7357 (and somewhat 7579)
  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.

• (6 Sep 2016)
  "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

• (13 Sep 2016)
  We considered problems involving combinatoric enumerations
  

  Live Archive Problems:
  • 5324: Finding Rectangles
  • 5325: Don't Get Rooked
  • 5328: Word Amalgamation
  • 2536: Safecracker
  • 4573: Black Vienna
  • 3852: Guard

• (20 Sep 2016)
  We considered problems involving dynamic programming
  

  Live Archive Problems:
  • 3390: Pascal's Travels (2005 Mid-Central; 12% success rate)
  • 4607: Robot Challenge (2009 Southeast; 31% success rate)
  • 4578: RIPOFF (2009 Mid-Central; 17% success rate)
  • 4195: Lawrence of Arabia (2008 Rocky-Mountain; 0% success rate)
  • 2784: Bright Bracelet (2003 Mid-Central)
  • 4608: Mosaic (2009 Southeast; 4% success rate)
  
  
  Open Kattis Problems:
  • Narrow Art Gallery (2014 Online Qualifier)

• (4 Oct 2016)
  Recursive Solver problems (handout)
  

  Live Archive Problems:
  • 6101: Bounce
  • 6496: Letter Cubes
  • 5931: Su-domino-ku
  • 4924: Top This
  • 4179: Hex Tile Equations
  • 7356: Mosaic