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The 33rd PACISE Conference Programming Contest |
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Shippensburg Department of |
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Computer Science and
Engineering |
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Registration |
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Teams will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis
as space permits. Each team must complete the
contest application form
and return it no later than Wednesday,
March 28th. Applications will be acknowledged via email. Note: Team members
must also register for the PACISE Conference; this requires a separate registration form which can be
found on the conference web site. |
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Information and Rules |
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Team Composition |
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All team members, including
faculty and alternates, must be registered for the conference using the
conference registration form. Any team with one or more members unregistered
for the conference will be disqualified. |
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Each team is comprised solely of
undergraduate students currently registered at that school. There will be two
or three undergraduate students per team, plus alternates. |
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Location and Hardware |
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á The programming contest location is in the Math/Computer
Technologies building. |
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á All machines will be running Linux with the following
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Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS |
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XFCE Desktop Environment |
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ACM Competition guidelines will be
used to define network access restrictions. |
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Open JDK 8 (java version
"1.8.0_151" |
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gcc version 5.4.0 (Ubuntu
5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) |
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Eclipse (Oxygen Edition) |
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CodeBlocks |
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JetBrains IntelliiJ IDEA |
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**** Plus standard text editors
including vim, emacs, gedit and leafpad |
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á Each team will be assigned its own account for the
practice run and a different account for the competition. |
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á A printer will be available to the teams during both the
practice run and the competition. |
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á We will be using PC^2 Contest software for managing the
competition. It has not yet been determined whether we will use automated or
manual judging. |
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á All programs must be written in C, C++, or Java using
installed compilers stated above. |
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á Each team will be allocated one computer. |
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Contest Time |
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There will be a practice session
which begins Friday evening at 7:30 PM for the purpose of familiarizing
participants with the computing environment. Teams will given directions on
using our machines and the PC2, followed by a practice session with one
sample problem. This practice session ends at 9:30. |
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The contest will officially run on
Saturday April 7th from 7:45 AM until 11:45 AM. A group of 5 problems will be
given to solve in this time period. |
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Contest Procedures, Rules and Restrictions |
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No internet access will be
allowed. |
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Students can bring text books and
printouts, but no electronic tools (flash drives, cell phones, electronic
watches, calculators, etc.). |
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All decisions of the judges and/or
the contest chair regarding permissible references are final. |
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Team advisors coaches, and
alternates are NOT permitted to help (or hinder) teams solve problems during
the contest. |
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The conference organizers cannot
be responsible for the security of unattended electronic devices. |
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Refreshments |
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Refreshments
will be available. |
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Rule Violations |
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Violations of the rules may result
in team penalties or disqualification. |
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All decisions of the contest
judges and/or contest chair are final. |
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Questions |
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Please forward
any questions to Dr. Chen Huo, Chair,
Programming contest. |
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