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, 2003, and 2004.
• 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 (SP2 plus any additional patches available two weeks before the contest.)

The programming languages will be C, C++, and JAVA. See the table below for exact applications.

For judging and clarrifications, we'll be using PC^2 version 8.6. For the user manual, Click here!

The details for the Contest Programming Environment are as follows:

C/C++
	Compiler
		GNU gcc 3.4.2 from the minGW distribution. Install from MinGW-4.1.0.exe (requires an internet connection to complete the installation) GNU gdb 5.2.1, also from the minGW distribution. Install from gdb-5.2.1-1.exe.
	Integrated Development Environments
		The following C/C++ IDE's are available: Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2. Available from here. Eclipse 3.1.1 with CDT. Eclipse can be downloaded from here. For CDT, install from within Exclipse (using the URL http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/eclipse3.1. GNU Emacs 21.3. Available from here.
	Documentation
		All documentations included in minGW (including gcc, gdb), DEV-CPP, Eclipse, and gnu-emacs SGI's Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide. Available for download from here.
JAVA
	Compiler
		Sun JAVA J2SE (SDK) 1.4.2.x Available from here.
	Integrated Development Environments
		The following JAVA IDE's are available: CodeGuide version 6.x Eclipse 3.1.1. Downloaded from here.. GNU Emacs 21.3. Available from here.
	Documentation
		J2SE 1.4.2 documentation, download from here.

Training for the Contest

The Contest Environment