Fall 2007 Programming Team Tryouts

Problems

  1. Longest Common Subsequence
  2. Points in Figures: Rectangles, Circles, and Triangles
  3. Antiarithmetic
  4. Free Spots
  5. Funny Encryption Method

Rules

  1. You will need to submit your programs to the automated judge to be checked for correctness.
  2. You will receive a 15 minute penalty for every incorrect submission.
  3. The rankings will be determined by comparing, in order:
    1. the number of problems solved
    2. the sum of the times, since the beginnign of the contest, you needed to solve the problems correctly + all penalties
  4. You may use the Java API and the below C++ library references; you should not use other online resources.

Online References

Here are relevant web sites:

ACM-ICPC website
Mid-Central USA Programming Contest website
Programming Challenges textbook web site
ACM-ICPC Live Archive (includes automated judge)
UVa problem set archive and online judge (the above problems come from here)
Article on how to prepare for the contest
Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
C++ reference
Sun's Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, API specification