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The UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition!
This year we are trying something new: an online contest for individual high school students! This contest will be held on Thursday, July 22, 2010 from 1 to 4pm (EDT). Students, if you are interested in competing, please watch this web site as we will reveal more information as the date gets closer. You can also contact Dr. Ali Orooji by phone at 407-823-5660 or by our contact form. We welcome as many people as we can handle!
Format
With the exceptions noted below, most aspects of the Online Edition will follow the same format as the annual team-based UCF High School Programming Tournament, which is based on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Each person will compete individually and must be a high school student (or recent graduate).
Contestants are given approximately eight programming problems to solve within three hours. The contestant solving the most problems wins. Ties are broken based on the time taken to solve the problems, and number of attempts. There is no penalty assessed for problems not solved.
Solution programs must be written in C, C++, or Java. Although it is necessary that each contestant be familiar with either C, C++, or Java, the emphasis of the contest is on problem solving rather than on the specific details of the language.
We will place additional information here on how to submit your solution programs and how statements of ambiguity will be handled.
Contest Programming Environments
You will need an internet-connected computer at your own location, with any reasonably current Java or C/C++ compiler/environment installed. The judges will compile and run your code using Java JDK 1.6.0_18 and gcc/g++ 4.4.3 command-line tools. We don't expect many problems with compiler compatibility, but we welcome questions prior to the contest about testing your chosen environment.
For all problems, solution programs must read input from "standard input" (stdin for C, cin for C++ and System.in for Java) and output to "standard output" (stdout for C, cout for C++, and System.out for Java). The programs must not display prompts such as "Enter a value" or "Press a key to continue" nor attempt to use graphical/window output.
Prizes
There will be no tangible prizes, but the top three will be recognized on our web site and you will gain bragging rights!
Registration
To register, go to hsptonline.eventbrite.com. We will contact you as the event gets closer in time (with information on how the problems will be distributed, submissions made, etc.).
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