Contest Details
Contest Date
Contest Venue
- Derrick Hall (DERR), Department of Computer Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA
Contest Location
- Derrick Hall, DER 231. For map, Click Here
- Free Parking (Tentative) - Pleasant Street Parking Garage (for map click here) and Matthews Street Parking Garage (for map click here).
Contest Schedule
08:00 am - 08:30 am: Welcoming and Check-In - Derrick Hall, Room 227
08:30 am - 09:00 am: Complementary Breakfast - Derrick Hall, Room 227
09:00 am - 09:30 am: Walk to the lab, Derrick Hall, Room 231, explain contest rules and hand-out the practice problem
09:30 am - 10:00 am: Finish the practice problem
10:00 am - 15:00 pm: Programming Contest (Complementary snacks will be provided during the contest)
15:00 pm - 16:00 pm: Break and social time - Derrick Hall, Room 227 (Complementary lunch will be provided)
16:00 pm - 16:45 pm: Award ceremony
16:45 pm to 17:00 pm: Group Photo in front of Alkek Library
Contest Format
Contest Major Rules and Information
This contest is open to all registered students.
Students will compete in teams of three.
You are allowed to bring any printed material with you as long as it fits in your allotted space. NO thumb drives with code!
You will NOT have access in any form to the internet. Please do not try to be innovative.
Each team will have access to one provided computer. All other electronics in all forms will need to be stowed prior to contest. This includes ear buds.
The format of the contest is ICPC judged problems. If you have never done this, see the website for links to practice problems.
The contest is judged based on successfully submitting problems to the on-line judge and having your answer accepted. You are penalized for the time it took you to solve it and the number of tries it took to solve it.
You should not interfere with the contest and must do what the contest admins ask you to do. Be mindful of talking too loudly.
For more detailed rules
click here. The key thing is to come, compete and have fun.
Come rested, hydrated and ready to code.
Programming Environment
- Programming languages allowed: C, C++ and Java
- IDE: Eclipse, Code::Blocks, CLion
- OS: Ubuntu
