Programming

ACM Irish Collegiate Programming Contest 2011 @UCC

On Saturday the 26th of March 2011 myself, Carl and Keith Cully, one of our class mates attended the ACM programming contest at University College Cork. We left Carlow around 7.00 or so and took the long trip down to Cork. Luckily this year we knew where we were going after getting lost last year and walking around UCC like lost children. We arrived early as did our lecturer, Joseph Keogh. We all sat outside in the sun and Joe imparted some magical knowledge of how he looks smart every day (“Buy the Financial Times and carry it under your arm.”) Continue reading ‘ACM Irish Collegiate Programming Contest 2011 @UCC’

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ACM-ICPC 2010/2011 Programming Problem – High Score

It’s getting closer and closer to the ACM-ICPC Programming contest in UCC this year so now more then ever we need practice. If you’re not up to speed on what it’s all about check out Carl’s first post on another ACM problem. So let’s get straight to the problem. I will present the problem in as clear and simple manner as I can, as the actual problem sheet is a little off putting if you ask me. You can download the pdf for it here. Continue reading ‘ACM-ICPC 2010/2011 Programming Problem – High Score’

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Solution to the ACM Programming Problem 1

So the other day month, I posted a programming problem from the ACM inter-collegiate programming competition that I did last year. Here’s my plain-English solution (with some code too). And yes. It is three months late.

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Two-hour ACM Programming Problem, the first

So myself and Ciarán (and some other classmates, Kevin Beirne and Keith Cully) are in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest at University College Cork this year. We’d competed last year, but we were so unprepared that we didn’t even bring pen and paper. It was a spur of the moment thing (to drive halfway across the country and compete in a programming competition is a spur-of-the-moment decision for us, oh yes).

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