Will this course count as a project or a seminar? | |
No. |
What will be the format of the workshop? | |
The workshop will be held mostly in the computer farm in Taub, where you will practice solving problems from previous competitions and submitting them to an online judge. As in the competition, you will work in teams of three, where each team uses only one computer. |
So do we need to find a team before signing up? | |
No. At the beginning of the semester, there will be several lessons where you can meet the rest of the class and find teammates. |
How and when will the competition at the end of the semester take place? | |
The competition will be very similar to the official ACM-ICPC format. You will have 5 hours to solve as many out of 8 problems as you can (teams of three, one computer per team). The competition will take place in the last week of the semester, as usual at the Taub computer farm. |
What will the winning team win? | |
The winning team will be invited to fly to Paris to represent the faculty and the Technion in the upcoming SWERC (South West Europe Regional Contest), a part of the worldwide ACM-ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest). In order to participate in SWERC, all team members will have to meet the ACM-ICPC eligibility criteria. |
What programming languages are used in the competition? And in the workshop? | |
In the workshop we will only use C++. The official languages used in ACM-ICPC are C++, C, and Java. |
What will the grades be based on? | |
The grades will be based on homework, attendance in the workshops, your achievements in the workshop, and the final competition, not necessarily in that order. There will be no final exam. |
I already took the course, can I sign up again? | |
You cannot retake the course, but you can compete at the end-of-year competition for your chance to represent the Technion in SWERC. If you are interested, please email edens@cs during the spring semester. |