This webpage is to provide some guidance in training for the ACM
Regional Competition.
Professor Vladimir Filkov
is the UC Davis coach. Contact
me asap if you want to participate.
Every week, we will post
three to four problems, covering several topics, for all to try.
Most problems here will be taken from the UVa
website unless otherwise noted.
You can register with their site and have them judge your program.
These problems are designed
to be solvable in less than five
hours. If you find yourself taking
more than two hours on one problem, you may be going at it the wrong
way.
Please be honest with yourself and do not take solutions from other
websites
(except for comparison or reference when needed). The contest itself
has running time and
memory constraints, so try to design your solutions for accuracy and
keep in mind
efficiency.
In addition, we are all
reading and understanding past problems. Start from our region's past
problems from the link above.
Good luck!
Problem Sets: