The As Yet Unnamed Programming Contest

April 17, 1999

It's Over!

The contest has come and gone. We got started at 1pm and ended at 4:00pm. Here's some post-contest information:

Intro:

On Saturday, April 17th, the ACM student chapter at the University of Delaware will be sponsoring a programming contest. The contest will run from 1:00pm to 4:00pm in Pearson 114/116. Food (probably pizza) will be provided afterwards. Any and all are invited to attend.

Rules:

For the most part, the contest will follow ACM rules. Each university can bring up to 5 teams consisting of 3 (or fewer) individuals. The 5 team limit may be lifted later on, depending on how many schools decide to come. Each team may have, at most, 1 graduate student who has not earned a master degree, nor has completed 2 years of grad school.

Participants may bring any manuals, or program listings they choose. The only electronic toy participants can use is the computer. They may not bring in things like diskettes, calculators (including watch calculators), etc.

Slightly more detailed rules can be found here.

The contest will be held in a UN*X environment, using X-windows. Participants may program in C, or C++. Vi, emacs, and pico will all be available as editors. If you have no idea what those are, try pico.

Registration:

The contest costs $5/contestant to help defray costs (food, etc). Click here for the registration form. I need to know you're coming no later than April 10th. Money can be sent via mail, or you can cough it up the day of the contest. The address for money to go to is:

ACM Chapter
c/o Dept of CIS
103 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Checks outta be made out to Association for Computing Machinery

Tentative Schedule:

Meet in Pearson 104 about 12:00 noon to go over some brief things
Sometime before 1:00-- A small practice session
1:00-4:00pm the contest proper
A little after 4, the results will be announced, food provided, prizes given out.

Prizes:

These are the prizes I can guarentee right now.

First place: $40/team member
Second place: $20/team member
Third place: $10/team member

That's the minimum. They may go up by the time the contest rolls around.

Directions to campus:

But wait, that's not all:

The University of Delaware has an excellent graduate program in Computer Science. If you're considering attending grad school, send me some email and I'll see about setting up a campus tour for you, meeting a professor, etc. Also, as a current grad student, I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you have about what grad school is like here.

Ben Breech
breech@cis.udel.edu