Waterloo Programming Contests

At the University of Waterloo

Next Local contests Sunday September 27 and Saturday October 3, 2009

Scheme now supported for the UW Contest (along with C, C++, Java, Pascal)

Detailed announcement

Place and Time

Registration:  Waterloo and invited participants please register on-line by September 26.

Contest dates:  Sunday September 27 and Saturday October 3, 2009

Place:  Math & Computer Bulding, room MC 2037

Timetable:

 
      10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.  Sign-in and account setup  (room to be announced)
                               Establishment of telnet remote access for
                               pre-arranged out-of-town entrants.
 
      11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.  Practice contest
 
         - lunch break -
 
      1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.    Contest
 
      5:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.    Free pizza; discussion of problems; announcement
                               of results.

Register on-line or see who's registered

Problem set for the Practice Contest available at start time

Problem set for the Real Contest available at start time

Judge's solutions and data available after the contest

Live standings

You can retrieve your files a few hours after the contest You will need to know your contest login and password. If you don't remember these, you can mail the judges.

Waterloo's local Programming Contests are held every term, and conducted according to ACM Rules with the following variances:

• each entrant is a single individual, rather than a team of three
• each contest is 3 hours long, rather than 5
• there are 5 questions, rather than "between 6 and 8 questions"

Contest Documentation and Help

Contestants use a restricted command-line interface to compile, test, and submit programs. Local participants are expected to use the terminals in MC 2037. Remote participants, by special arrangement, may use telnet, rlogin, or ssh to access the contest environment.

Available editors are xedit, vi, and jove.

Available programming languages are C, C++, Java, and Pascal.

You are allowed to bring notes and books. Print the contestant reference and bring it with you. Bring a book for the programming language and editor you plan to use. Books on algorithms and geometry may come in handy.

Using Scheme to solve contest problems. The contest environment uses mzscheme. But note that in the contest environment you will use the "sc" command to run Scheme; for example, the command

   sc A.s < inputfile > outputfile

You are not allowed any electronic aids like calculators or the Web.

• Contest environment overview, reference document (ps) reference document (pdf).
• ACM Rules.
• remote access environment
• Tutorials and DOS executables for editors used in the contest environment

3 October, 2009 - Waterloo local contest

• Peter Wen won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

27 September, 2009 - Waterloo local contest

• Gelin Zhou won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

13 June, 2009 - Waterloo local contest

• Hrushikesh Tilak won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

8 February, 2009 - Waterloo local contest

• Malcolm Sharpe won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

4 October, 2008 - Waterloo local contest

• Tor Myklebust won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

27 September, 2008 - Waterloo local contest

• Malcolm Sharpe won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

15 June, 2008 - Waterloo local contest

• Konstantin Lopyrev won -- Final standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

29 September, 2007 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

23 September, 2007 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

14 July, 2007 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

30 September, 2006 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

24 September, 2006 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

27 May, 2006 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

25 February, 2006 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Standings
• Judge Data and Solutions

24 September, 2005 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Judge data and solutions
• Final Standings

17 September, 2005 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Judge data and solutions
• Final Standings

11 June, 2005 - Alberta/Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Judge data and solutions
• Final Standings

5 February, 2005 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Scores
• Judges' solutions and test data

25 September, 2004 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems
• Final Scores
• Judges' solutions and test data

19 September, 2004 - Waterloo local contest

• Final Scores
• Problems
• Judges' solutions and test data

12 June, 2004 - Alberta/Waterloo local contest

• Final Standings and key to who's who
• Problem Set
• Judge's solutions and data

31 January, 2004 - Waterloo local contest

• Lars Hellsten won - Here are the standings.
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

27 September, 2003 - Waterloo local contest

• Final Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

20 September, 2003 - Waterloo local contest

• Final Standings
• September 21 statement concerning revision of results
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

5 July, 2003 - Waterloo local contest

• Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

25 January, 2003 - Waterloo local contest

• Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

28 September, 2002 - Waterloo local contest

• In conjunction with University of Alberta
• Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

21 September, 2002 - Waterloo local contest

• In conjunction with University of Alberta
• Denis Dmitriev wins at Waterloo
• Final Standings
• Gilbert Lee wins at Alberta (and overall)
• Alberta Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' solutions and test data

1 June, 2002 - Waterloo local contest

• In conjuction with University of Alberta
• Gilbert Lee (Alberta) tops overall!
• Denis Dmitriev top Waterloo finisher (2nd overall).
• Final Standings (merged Alberta and Waterloo)
• Contest Problems
• Judges' data and solutions

23 March, 2002 - ACM World Finals in Honolulu

• Waterloo 3rd in the World!
• Final Standings
• Some Pictures

26 January, 2002 - Waterloo local contest

• Gordon Chiu won
• Final Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

29 September, 2001 - Waterloo local contest

• Jeff Shute won
• Final Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

22 September 2001 - Waterloo local contest

• Jeff Shute won
• Final Standings
• Problem Set
• Judges' data and solutions

2 June 2001 - Waterloo local contest

• Denis Dmitriev won
• Contest Questions
• Final standings-- see also--Vallaloid standings
• Judges' solutions and data

10 March 2001 - ACM World Finals in Vancouver

• Held in Vancouver
• Waterloo 4th!
• Final Standings

17 January 2001 - Waterloo local contest

• Ondrej Lhotak won. Here are the final scores.
• Problem Set.
• Solutions and Judging data.

7 November 2000 - ACM East Central Regional Contest

• Waterloo 2nd place
• Held at Case Western University and University of Cincinnati
• Regional contest home page

23 September and 30 September 2000 - Waterloo local contest

• Problems for September 23 Practice
• Problems for September 23 Contest. Solutions and judges' data Results.
• Problems for September 30 Practice
• Problems for September 30 Contest. Data and solutions. Score.

15 March 2000 ACM World Finals

• We are North American Champions
• We are Second in the World
• We are Gold Medalists (tied with winner for questions solved)
• Congratulations to World Champs St. Petersburg State!
• Final Standings

29 January 2000 - Waterloo local contest

• Donny Cheung won!
• Results for Jan 29, 2000
• The questions for Jan 29 appear here
• Solutions and judges' data

13 November 1999 - ACM East Central Regional Contest

• Held at the University of Waterloo (again) - We won! (again)
• Regional Contest Home Page

25 September & 2 October 1999

• Jeff Shute won both contests!

• The questions for the Sept. 25 practice appear here.
• The questions for the Sept. 25 contest proper appear here.
• Judges' data and corresponding output for the Sept. 25 contest appear here.
• Jeff Shute won the Sept. 25 contest. Final standings for Sept. 25

• The questions for the Oct. 2 practice appear here.
• The questions for the Oct. 2 contest proper appear here.
• Jeff Shute won the Oct. 2, contest, too!
• Solutions and judges' data.
• Final standings.

19 June 1999 - UW local contest

• Ondrej Lhotak Won

• Here are the questions, test data, and final scores.
• Alberta, Toronto, and Waterloo ran parallel contests. Here are the combined results.

11 April 1999 - ACM World Championship in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

We won!

• Photos of Waterloo's World Champions
• Kitchener-Waterloo Record article, May 4, 1999.
• Final Standings.

31 January 1999

• Derek Kisman won.
• Standings
• Contest questions
• Test data and sample solutions

14 November 1998 - ACM East Central Regional Contest

• Held at Waterloo. Full contest information.
• Waterloo first and fifth. Final results.
• We are off the the ACM World Finals in Eindhoven, April 1999.

17 October 1998

• Viet-Trung Luu won. Here are the Final Results.
• Questions appear here.
• Solutions and testing data appear here.
• Do question B and mail solution to the judges. So far, Trung and Ryan O'Donnell (of U of T) have sent us correct solutions.
• Warmup questions.

4 October 1998

• David Kennedy won. Here are the Final Results.
• The Official Questions appear here.
• Testing data and sample solutions, too.
• Warmup questions.

6 June 1998

Practice contest

• Contest questions and judges' data
• Final Standings

31 Jan 1998

Practice Contest

• Contest questions

24 Jan 1998

Invitational miniature team competition.

• Contest questions

18 Oct 1997

U of T used the same problem set.

• Warmup questions
• Contest questions
• Final Standings

7 Oct 1997

U of T used almost the same problem set.

• Here are the questions
• Test data and output (tar.gz)
• Final Standings

5 October 1996

• Problem Set (pdf)
• Judges' data and solutions
• Final Standings

28 September 1996

• Problem Set (pdf)
• Judges' data and solutions
• Final Standings

Past Waterloo Contests

• Phil Chong's Contest Archive

More Problems

• Contest Problem Server -- mail in your solutions
• Teamwork in Programming Contests: 3 * 1 = 4, by Fabian Ernst, Jergen Moelands, and Seppo Pieterse _