Training for the Contest

The Contest Environment

Training for the Contest

Here are few pointers to help contestants get ready for the contest:

• The best thing you can do to get ready for the contest is practice solving problems as much as possible. An excellent site for past acm/icpc problems is this site.
• University of Valladolid has a contest site with an enormous problems archive. You can even send your answers to the online Judge. Follow this link.
• Here's also a link to previous Arab and North Africa Regional Contest problems for the years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.
• A good text book is Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual. The book has its own online judging system. Click here to go there..
• Here's an interesting article on the best teams strategy. The article is titled: Teamwork in Programming Contests: 3*1=4.
• Here's another article about common programming errors. The article is titled: Common Mistakes in Online and Real-time Contests. .
• Don't forget you can bring any printed material to the contest: Books, notes, listings, whatever you like as long as it is not in an electronic format.

Got a pointer you wish to share with the rest? Send an email to webmaster@acm.kuniv.edu

Training for the Contest

The Contest Environment

The Contest Environment

The contest operating system environment is Microsoft Windows XP Professional. The programming languages will be C, C++, and JAVA.

For C and C++, the programming environment will be Microsoft Visual C++ Version 6.

For Java, the compiler will be Sun MicroSystems' J2SE version 1.4.x. We'll have two IDE's for JAVA: The first is KAWA version 3.22. The second is CodeGuide Version 6.x

For judging and clarrifications, we'll be using PC^2 version 8.5d. If you would like to take a look at the user manual, Click here!

Training for the Contest

The Contest Environment