Fall 2008 Results
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 L. | 1/133 | 2/29 | 1/39 | 1/92 | 2/– | 4 | 313 |
| 2 | Dmitriy A. | 1/24 | 1/41 | 1/163 | 3 | 228 | ||
| 3 | Jason E. | 1/71 | 2/129 | 1/101 | 3 | 321 | ||
| 4 | Cale C. | 2/19 | 12/166 | 4/126 | 3 | 611 | ||
| 5 | Randy F. | 1/33 | 2/– | 1 | 33 | |||
| 6 | Jeremy W. | 1/37 | 3/– | 1 | 37 | |||
| 7 | Jon S. | 4/72 | 7/– | 1 | 132 | |||
| 8 | Chaz T. | 1/– | 2/134 | 2/– | 1 | 154 | ||
| 9 | Gierad L. | 2/168 | 1/– | 4/– | 1 | 188 | ||
| 10 | Anthony W. | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 10 | Brian M. | 3/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | John P. | 5/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Tom K. | 2/– | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Tony T. | 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!



