ACM Competitive Programming Club
James Madison University, Fall 2015 Semester
When: Wednesdays, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Where: ISAT/CS 143 Linux Lab
Everyone is invited—all skill levels from CS 139 to CS 999 are welcome to join!
Online Resources
Template Files
(C++, Java, Python)
C++ Tutorial
/
C++ Reference
/
STL Guide
Java API Docs
/
Collections Framework
UVa Online Judge
/
uHunt UVa Hunting
UVa Toolkit
/
uDebug
generate test cases!
Fall 2015 Schedule (OLD)
Section numbers are from the 3rd edition of
Competitive Programming
by Halim and Halim.
CS 280 Syllabus
(optional, if you would like to enroll for credit)
Fall 2015 Schedule (Archived)
LaTeX Template File
/
LaTeX 101 Slides
(for CS 280 portfolio)
| Date |
Prep |
Notes |
Contest |
| Sep 04 |
Problem A from 2013 |
 Overview and Rules |
 Warm-up Problems |
| Sep 11 |
Read/Study 1.3--1.4 |
How to Write Code |
Ad Hoc Problems 1 |
| Sep 18 |
Read/Study 1.1--1.2 |
Tips on Competitive |
Ad Hoc Problems 2 |
| Sep 25 |
Read/Study 2.1--2.2 |
Vector, Stack, Queue |
Linear Structures |
| Oct 02 |
Read/Study 2.3, STL |
Sets, Maps, Bit Sets |
Non-Linear Structs |
ACM-ICPC North America Qualification
Oct 3rd, 12:00pm-5:00pm, Online (at JMU)
|
| Oct 09 |
Read/Study 2.4, STL |
Graphs and Trees |
Adjacency Lists |
| Oct 16 |
Read/Study 3.1--3.2 |
CS: Just Do It! |
Complete Search |
| Oct 23 |
Read/Study 3.3 |
Guessing Games |
Binary Search |
| Oct 30 |
Read/Study 4.1--4.2 |
BFS and DFS |
Graph Traversal |
| Nov 06 |
Read/Study 4.4--4.5 |
Dijkstra's Algo |
Shortest Paths |
ACM-ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest
Nov 7th, 12:00pm-5:00pm, Radford University
|
| Nov 13 |
Regional Results |
More Test Cases |
ICPC Problems |
| Nov 20 |
Read/Study 5.1--5.2 |
Ad Hoc Math |
2-Week Contest |
| Dec 04 |
Read/Study 5.3, 6.3 |
BigInteger, Strings |
"Easy" Problems |
| Dec 11 |
Study LOLCODE |
O HAI, WORLD! |
Simple Input |