Loyola College 2005-06 High School Programming Contest

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Welcome to the Loyola College Programming Contest!

Time and Place

This year's contest will be held Saturday, January 28th at Loyola College's Columbia Graduate Center at 8890 McGaw Road in Howard County. The directions will guide you to the center The contest proper begins at 9:30am; please see the schedule of activites for more information.

Prizes

Thanks to the generous support of Northrop Grumman, we have increased the prizes this year. Northrop Grumman is a leading employer of Computer Science and IT professionals in the Baltimore-Washington area and they employ many graduates of Loyola College.

Registration

Please use the registration form to register teams. You can submit the form by FAX (410-617-2157) or regular mail (the address is on the form). You may also register by e-mail; please send all of the information requested on the printed form. We have room for 25 teams. We will register one team per school on a first come, first served basis until December 16th. After that date, any remaining spaces will be allocated to schools wishing to register multiple teams. All registrations must be received by January 13th.

Registration has closed for the 2005-06 contest. We are happy to have over 60 students participating from the following schools.

The Cardinal Gibbons School Glen Burnie High School Marriotts Ridge High School Montgomery Blair High School
Archmere Academy Mount Hebron High School Centennial High School Calvert Hall College high School
Walt Whitman High School Sherwood High School Damascus High School Towson High School

If you would like to be on the mailing list for information about the 2006-07 contest, please let us know.

Contest Rules

Please check the contest rules shortly before the contest in case any changes have been made.

Programming Environment

Each team will have one (and only one) workstation to use during the contest. All computers run Windows XP and will have jGRASP and Java installed. Select workstations can have Eclipse and Visual Studio installed on request. In addition, there will be remote access to a machine running Linux for teams who prefer a Unix environment.

Instructions for using the contest workstations are now available.

Sample Problems

You can visit the page for the 2004-05 contest held in October 2004 for last year's problems and other information about that contest. Keep in mind that the 2004 contest included college teams; some of the problems would need to be reworked to stay within the AP Java subset (in particular, most of the problems would have to be reworked to not use console input). We have reworked last year's first problem to reflect how it might have appeared in this year's contest.

Teams will have an opportunity before the contest begins to see how the development environment and submission system work. A simple practice problem as well as the firts one from last year's contest will be available for testing.

Submissions and judging will be done with the PC2 system that is used for the ACM collegiate programming contests. Documentation for PC2 is available online.