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This site is for University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) students interested in being involved in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

UMN team "Dijkstra" went off to the ICPC International Final in Tokyo over Spring Break 2007, as one of three winning teams from the North-Central regional contest of about 180 teams the previous fall.
Team Dijkstra is
Erik Shimshock, Zi Lin and Alex Dean.
See the International Final link to the left for more details.

 

If you want to get involved in the Fall 2009 regional contest,
contact the coach Carl Sturtivant (link on the left)., or show up to practice sessions on Fridays 4pm-6pm in EE/CSci2-170

A link to the Programming Challenges book website is at http://www.programming-challenges.com/

A good problem to "get your feet wet" is located at 3 N + 1 Problem

New Problems of Interest, Fall 2009
Recommended by Peter L.

Pascal's Travels

medium strength

Painter

medium strength

Copier Reduction

easier

Overflowing Bookshelf

easier

Netiquette

easier

Connect

harder

Time to Graduate

medium-hard

Consecutive Digits

medium-hard

Leapin' Lizards

harder



Problems Used Previously

Name

Link

1) Caterpillar

http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3724

2) Shuffle'm Up

http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3418

3) Making Book

2003 - problem 9

4) The Zipper

2004 - problem 3

5) Hie with the Pie

http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3725

6) Triangular N-Queens Problems

http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3572

7) Frugal Search

http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3598


Books that might help

The Algorithm Design Manual, by Steve S. Skiena

Amazon

Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. Cormen, et al.

Amazon

 
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