Date	Saturday, January 25, 2003
Time	11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (pizza lunch will be provided)
Location	Goodwin 233/235/248
Eligibility	Queen's University undergraduate students Others are welcome, but they will not be eligible for prizes
Prize	Each winner (determined by year of study) will receive a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio .net, and a plaque from the School of Computing The overall winner will also receive a copy of Windows XP Professional The top ten performers will receive a T-shirt

Description

The School of Computing and Computing Students' Association are proud to announce the fourth annual Queen's Internal Programming Contest. The format of the contest will be very similar to the annual ACM programming contest. Each contestant will be given five questions to solve individually. The solution must be written in C, C++, or Java. You are allowed to use any non-electronic reference, so you can bring any books or notes, but no searching in the Internet.

Contestants are judged based on their year of study, i.e., second year contestants will compete with other second year contestants, fourth year (and above) contestants will compete with other fourth year contestants. The problems are the same for all contestants. The year of a student is determined by the number of years he/she studied at Queen's.

There will be four winners, one from each year, and each of them will receive a plaque, and their names will be engraved on a plaque which is on display the School of Computing. We are pleased to have Microsoft as our corporate sponsor again this year, and Microsoft will provide software prizes for each of the winners. Top ten performers will receive a T-shirt, and the overall winner will receive an additional prize from Microsoft.

To register for the contest, please send your name, current year, and degree of study to acmteam@cs.queensu.ca. As spaces are limited, you must register for the contest.

Schedule

Format of the Contest

There will be five questions. You are allowed to use a Unix workstation or a PC to program the solutions. The solution must be in standard C, C++, or Java. Solutions will be judged on a Unix workstation.

To test the correctness of your solution, we have a set of input and the corresponding set of model output. Your solution is judged as correct if your output matches the model output. You do not have to handle invalid input - the input to test your solution will always be valid (according to the specification of the question).

In case you want to know, the questions are written by people at Queen's University and at University of Toronto, as we are holding our internal contests simultaneously with the same set of questions.

Links

• Previous internal contests (including problems and solutions)
• Previous tryouts for the ACM Programming Contest (including problems and solutions)

For more information, please send email to acmteam@cs.queensu.ca.