Hello everybody!
In the past we have participated in the IDI Open programming contest.
The contest is hosted at NTNU (Norges teknisk-naturvidenskabelige
universitet), and we will have a local site here in Aarhus!
Now for the important part: the Computer Science Department will be
sponsoring the event by giving pizza and sodas to everybody.
The competition will take place in Stibitz 21st of April from 11-16, but
be there at 10 to make sure everything works - and perhaps get some tips
and tricks.
What is a programming competition? You are in a team of 2-3 people and
you sit at a computer for 5 hours solving problems (usually algorithmic
in nature). Solving means writing a program that reads input (standard
in) computes something and produces an output (standard out). The
allowed languages are: Java, C and C++. You are not allowed to use the
internet during the 5 hours, only your language documentation (java API,
c++ reference,...)
Information about this contest can be found at
http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open12/theindex.php?page=news
Here you can see the problems from last year:
http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open11/public/idiopen2011problems.pdf
How do you sign up? If you already have a team of 2-3 people you can go
to http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open12/theindex.php?page=register and sign
up. Remember to put "[Aarhus]" as a prefix of your team name, and please
send me an email with your team info.
If you do not have a team but would like to participate, send me an
email and I will try to match you up with others.
Remember, we have some big shoes to fill... in 2010 it was a team from
Aarhus that won the competition, perhaps another team can repeat the
success?
There will be a practice session the 4th of April in Stibitz-123 from
14-17. Come by and see what this is all about. If there is an interest
in having more sessions, we can figure it out then.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me: jasn(a)cs.au.dk
Or you can read more information at: http://cs.au.dk/~mgreve/algocomp/
and http://cs.au.dk/~jasn/algocomp/
Best,
Jesper
