Hey everyone.
Two teams participated in the ACM Programming Competition on Saturday October 31, 2009. Our team Bits Don’t Byte solved two problems and placed 6th at the site and won backpacks with ACM logos on them.
Our team Water Who had the best team name and also solved two problems.
The teams placed 31st and 43rd in our region out of 113 teams.
Check out pictures from the site here!
Brad
It’s that time of year again. The leaves are changing colors, the temperature is getting cooler, and the Regional Programming Contest (RPC) is about to begin.
The RPC is the first round of team-based programming contests for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC). This year, our RPC will happen on October 31 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus. Each year we send two teams of three people to compete for a chance at glory* - and that’s where you come in!
We are holding programming practices every Friday at noon in CIS 139. Each week we pick a different programming problem and attempt to solve it. Usually by the time we have a basic algorithm figured out our minds start to get a little fuzzy, so we refocus them with the help of some FREE PIZZA.
If YOU want to see about joining a team, test your wits, or just hang out and eat pizza, stop by Friday at noon in CIS 139!
*To get an idea of how our teams have done in the past, visit our RPC results page.
It is hard to believe that the first week of classes is nearly at an end, and with this new semester comes a new set of ACM officers and a new meeting schedule. Well, we at the ACM want to welcome you all back in style, so at the next meeting on Wednesday, January 21st at 3:30pm in the 1st floor conference room in the CIS building we are supplying the snacks, you just have to supply the warm bodies (yours, preferably, but feel free to bring a friend!)
The agenda for this meeting includes:
Whatever YOU want to see the ACM do for you
So we hope to see you there! Email me if you have any questions.
Upcoming Events:
The Fall 2008 University of Michigan-Dearborn Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery Programming Contest
Final Report
December 3, 2008
The University of Michigan-Dearborn Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery Programming Contest was held on Wednesday, December 3, 2008. We had 14 students participate. The contest was held in the CIS Building on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
1. Version 8.7 of the PC^2 Contest Control System was used to run the contest. There were no technical problems and the actual contest went very smooth. The problems discovered during the practice competition were fixed before the start of the actual contest.
2. The contest started at 18:07:21 and ended at 21:07:22 for a duration of 3 hours.
3. The contest consisted of 5 problems with 9 students solving at least one problem.
4. The maximum number of problems solved was 4 problems.
Final Standings
| Rank | Name | A | B | C | D | E | Solved | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| marble | blue | orange | green | yellow | ||||
| 1 | David Lawrenchuk | 1/133 | 2/29 | 1/39 | 1/92 | 2/– | 4 | 313 |
| 2 | Dmitriy Ansolis | 1/24 | 1/41 | 1/163 | 3 | 228 | ||
| 3 | Jason Eaton | 1/71 | 2/129 | 1/101 | 3 | 321 | ||
| 4 | Cale Colony | 2/19 | 12/166 | 4/126 | 3 | 611 | ||
| 5 | Randy Foster | 1/33 | 2/– | 1 | 33 | |||
| 6 | Jeremy White | 1/37 | 3/– | 1 | 37 | |||
| 7 | Jon Smereka | 4/72 | 7/– | 1 | 132 | |||
| 8 | Chaz Tinskey | 1/– | 2/134 | 2/– | 1 | 154 | ||
| 9 | Gierad Laput | 2/168 | 1/– | 4/– | 1 | 188 | ||
| 10 | Anthony Wesley | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 10 | Brian McClure | 3/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | John Papke | 5/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Tom Kowalski | 2/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Tony Tahmouch | 1/– | 0 | 0 |
Number of correct and incorrect solutions by problem
| Problem | Total | Correct | Incorrect | % Correct |
| A. Short on Cheese | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.66% |
| B. Pass or Feil | 22 | 9 | 13 | 40.90% |
| C. Stuck In Traffic | 33 | 4 | 29 | 12.12% |
| D. Wordy Calculator | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33.33% |
| E. Think Inside The Box | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.00% |
| TOTALS | 73 | 18 | 55 | 24.65% |
Problem Sets and Judges’ Solutions
Actual problem set (pdf)
| Problem | Actual Input | Expected Output | Judges’ Solution |
| A | A.in.txt | A.out.txt | C++ Another C++ |
| B | B.in.txt | B.out.txt | C++ Another C++ |
| C | C.in.txt | C.out.txt | C++ Another C++ |
| D | D.in.txt | D.out.txt | C++ |
| E | E.in.txt | E.out.txt | C++ Another C++ |
Many thanks to Dennis Matveyev, Scott Hoffman, Pablo Garcia, Cardi DeMonaco Jr., Jer Lance, Vince Shaw, Tony Wesley, and Louis McHugh for all of their hard work and effort in making the first programming contest a huge success!
Greetings, fellow ACM members. We have a PROGRAMMING CONTEST sponsored by ACM and UPE that will challenge YOU !
JOIN us for the fun and for the challenge of a real programming contest conducted at our own dear school of University of Michigan-Dearborn for our own dear students. The purpose of this contest is to start up a contest tradition at UMD, to have fun, to experience the challenges that programming contests bring.
We are aiming the contest towards students who’ve taken CIS 150, 200 or above, so the difficulty should be relatively straightforward. Nevertheless it’s a contest, so expect to be challenged!
The contest is on December 3rd in lab CIS 139. Tentative schedule:
The contest will be run by the rules of established ACM regional contests with some modifications. That is, there are 5 problems to be solved in a 3 hours period. You can use C, C++ or Java. Problems are judged automatically by comparing the judge’s answers to the answers given by your program. They have to match exactly character by character to be counted as a solution. You will not be judged on the written style of your program or any comments. The only thing that will matter for the contest is if your program gives the right answers and if it works fast enough for all the test cases. The judges want to have everybody solve at least one problem but have nobody solve all 5 problems.
Prizes are: $50 first place, $30 second place and $20 third place. There will also be other non-monetary prizes and honorable mentions. While the contest is serious in its core, we intend to make it a fun event with fun and interesting problems to solve.
Let me know if you have any questions about any part of the contest and let me know if you decide to attend — I’d love to have you there!
Contact us at dennismv@umd.umich.edu and let’s get you in!
Brad | 
November 9, 2009| 
