ACM ICPC Regional Contest 2008

It's that time of year again. The ACM ICPC regional contest takes place on Saturday 11 October. If you haven't heard much about it, this is a programming contest for university students which UCT has been highly. If you would like to find out more about the contest read http://acm.cs.uct.ac.za/ .

Registration:

If you would like to compete you will need to register here: http://acm.cs.uct.ac.za/register/ . Please note that to enter you need to be a registered student and you either started studying in 2004 or later, or you were born in 1985 or later.

Training:

We have put together a training schedule of 4 Saturday sessions where we will go through a range of training procedures covering contest strategy, specific problem solving techniques such as graph theory and dynamic programming, and straight-forward practice contests. The tentative schedule is:

9 August: Practice contest
23 August: Contest strategy
13 September: TBA
27 September: TBA
11 October: Real contest

For the first session this Saturday we will start the practice contest at 10:00 in The Shuttleworth Lab, so please arrive about 15 minutes before. If you have not yet got a definite team then we recommend you attend at least the 2nd session. Our aim is to get teams formed early on so that you can practice together as a team which is very important.

Please direct any questions to Marco Gallotta at mgallott@cs.uct.ac.za