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University of Adelaide - South Pacific Champions 2006
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The University of Adelaide, Represented by Alex Flint, Patrick Coleman,
and Khang Tran, won the title of South Pacific Champions in this
year's final, held in April in San Antonio Texas (Photo Courtesy of
the ACM Programming Contest).
Documentation
The University of Adelaide is a regular sponsor of
teams for the
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Teams from Adelaide have won the contest at the South Australian
site for the past four years running.
The aim of the contest is to solve as many challenging programming
problems as possible in a fixed amount of time. The solutions not
only have to be correct but they also have to be reasonably efficient.
Most judging is automatic and feedback is very fast. The competition
is very intense but a lot of fun with the winners often being decided
in the last few minutes.
Contest Setup
The Programming Contest is a world-wide event with a world final
being held in Texas in April next year.
Before the world final teams must compete in a series of regional
rounds. Our teams compete in the South Pacific round held on
Saturday 17th September this year. The round is held simultaneously
at a number of sites in Australia and New Zealand. This year Adelaide
University will be the South Australian site.
To select teams to enter in the South Australian round the School of
Computer Science will host one or more preliminary rounds. These
will be held early in second semester at times which best suit the
candidate teams.
Eligibility
Any student of the University of Adelaide who will have completed less
than 8 semesters worth of full-time post-secondary study by the time
of the contest should eligible to enter. If you are unsure please
email me so I can confirm.
Cost
The School of Computer Science will pay the entry fees of the
teams we sponsor for the contest. Selection rounds are free.
How to Enter
Interested?
The first thing to do is to sign up a team of three members at
the end of the
following link.
Questions?
Send an email to
brad@cs.adelaide.edu.au if you have any questions. Or you'd
like to compete but haven't yet got a team of three.
Brad Alexander, August 2006.
The University of Adelaide
