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Resources

The Southern California Region does not publish all of its problem sets. But to help you prepare (that means: see if you can figure out how these people think), here are some actual problems from prior years of the Southern California Region's contest sets:

The Southern California Region policy regarding contest problems is that we do not publish the judges' data, nor do we publish a "solution set." For further reference, additional problem sets can be found at http://www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks and at various sites on the web using your favorite search engines.


Books

Programming Challenges, Steven S. Skiena and Miguel Revilla, 2003. This book is targeted at contestants in programming competitions and can be used for practice with the web-accessible automated judging system maintained by one of the authors.

Articles

  1. "Teamwork in Programming Contests: 3 * 1 = 4," ACM Crossroads

  2. From ACM MemberNet, a brief interview with the coach of the 2003 ACM ICPC World Champion team from Warsaw University.


Posted on Tue, 29-Apr-2008 20:41:08 MST
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