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This Year's Tournament

This year's tournament will be held on May 4, 2012. Advisors, if you are interested in having your team(s) compete at our tournament, please visit the Registration Page, or contact Dr. Ali Orooji by phone at 407-823-5660 or by our contact form. Students, if you are interested in competing, please discuss this with your high school team advisor and show him/her this web site. We welcome as many teams for which we have space!

Format

Each participating school is represented by one or more teams of up to three students each. Teams are given approximately ten programming problems to solve within four hours. The team solving the most problems wins (ties are broken based on the amount of time taken to solve the problems). Teams have the option of using C/C++, and/or Java on PC’s. Although it is necessary that each student 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. An orientation session on the day of the contest will allow teams to become familiar with the contest equipment. Lunch and dinner will be provided.

Contest Programming Environments

The competition this year will use the following environments:

C/C++:

• Dev C++ 4.9.9.2

Java:

• Jgrasp 1.8.8_01
• NetBeans 6.9.1
• Eclipse Helios Release

Note: All Java IDEs will use JDK 1.6.0_20

Prizes

The first, second, and third place teams will be awarded trophies and probably scholarships (scholarships are being requested from UCF). Hardware prizes are usually awarded to the top schools as well. In addition, each participating team member and advisor will receive a limited edition, commemorative T-shirt!

Registration

The registration fee for each team is $50 (not $50 per school). After your Registration is complete, please send payment (made payable to UCF-CS-CONTEST) by April 13, 2012 to:

Dr. Ali Orooji
Department of EECS
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2362