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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).

Our last Win

UMN team "Dijkstra" and coach went off to the ICPC International Final in Tokyo, as one of three winning teams from the North-Central regional contest of about 180 teams.
Team Dijkstra was
Erik Shimshock, Zi Lin and Alex Dean, and the coach was Carl Sturtivant. See the International Final link to the left for more details.

 

Contact the coach Carl Sturtivant, if you are interested in getting involved in the 2008 regional ICPC this Fall (2008). Coaching begins now (start of Fall semester). You can be not just a coder, but an algorithm designer, pseudo-code writer, mathematician or problem solver, as we'll form teams of three covering all strengths. Every year we enter the regional contest, and we've had teams go on to the international final three times in the last seven years we've done this. You are welcome also if you want to practice the art of coding and problem solving even if you don't want to actually compete on the day.

 

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

Recommended Starter Problems

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

 

Programming Challenges, by Steve S. Skiena et al

Amazon

(We can lend each team a copy of this)

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

Amazon

 

 
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