I posted this week’s problem of the week challenge on the UVic programming club website. You can check it out here if you’re curious. It’s based in part on a problem I did years ago at one of my first contests. It’s not a really challenging problem, although some people may struggle with the parsing and this is in part why I chose this problem. The students main hurdle at the moment is with knowing how to best read in input, so hopefully this problem will give them a little extra practice.
The actual undergraduate competition that I am organizing is less than a week away, January 31st. I still have a fair amount to do, like print off all the problems, instructions, login information, and organize it into envelopes. I also need to get all the sample input files, links to APIs, and program submitting software (PC^2) on all the contestant accounts. I plan to set up a scoreboard in the lab where we’re hosting the contest using the projector and screens available.
One of the instructors at UVic is organizing the prizes and pizza for after the contest. I plan to pick up some munchies in the morning on the way in so that people will have something to munch on prior to the competition.
Unrelated to this. I submitted my solution to the 500 point from the TopCoder SRM 433. Passed with flying colors. Ugh, depressing :-(. (Check out my post from Jan. 21st for details).
