HKUST Programming Contest

Fall 2011

The HKUST Programming Contest 2011 Fall will be held on September 11th (Sun). It is opened to all HKUST students. Outstanding performers in the contest may be selected into HKUST Programming Team for outside contests. As a team member of the HKUST Programming Team, you will have opportunities to represent HKUST to participate in other world-wide programming contest. In recent years, our teams have been to South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, USA and Canada for participating in regional and world-final programming contest organized by ACM.

This time, 2011 Fall contest would be used to absorb new team members and to prepare for the ACM/ICPC Asia Regional Contests in November 2011. You may be able to represent HKUST to join ACM/ICPC World Final 2012 in Warsaw, Poland through your hard work.

Information:
Event: HKUST Programming Contest 2011 Fall
Date: September 11, 2011 (Sunday)
Venue: CS Lab 3 (Room 4213)
Time: Trial Run: 10:00 - 11:00, Contest: 13:00 - 17:30
Eligibility: All HKUST students
Application Method: email to Derek Hao HU following EXACTLY this email template.
Application Deadline: 22:00 (GMT+8), September 10, 2010

Contest Rules & Details:
1. The programming language to be used in this contest is C/C++. The contestants use PC2 to submit their source codes to the judge and the source codes are compiled by Visual Studio 2010.
2. In this contest, the contestants are given six to seven programming problems. The goal is to solve as many problems as possible. For those who solve the same number of problems, the one with lower score wins. (The scoring system will be explained below.)
3. In the problem statements, the I/O formats are stated clearly. The contestants can assume that all test cases are of the format as stated in the problem statements. i.e. No exception handling is needed.
4. The correctness of each submission is judged by inputting test cases into the submitted program. The submission is regarded as correct if its outputs match completely with the model outputs. The submission is judged as correct or wrong. No partial credit is given.
5. The contestants can re-submit another source code after previous wrong submissions.
6. Unless specified in the problem statements, all programs should not run for more than 5 seconds (in most cases a "correct" implementation will run far less than 5 seconds).
7. The contestants are ranked firstly by the number of problems solved, and secondly the total time spent on solving the problems. Time spent on solving one problem is the time between the start of contest and the submission of the correct implementation of that problem. For each problem you solved, a penalty of 20 minutes will be added to your score for each wrong submission of that problem.
8. The contestants are allowed to bring any hard copies of books, notes, references, dictionaries and sketch papers to the contest site. Electronic devices are forbidden.
For further enquiry, please contact Derek Hao HU (derekhh@cse.ust.hk) .