Loyola College 2007-08 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, February 16th at Loyola College's Columbia Graduate Center at 8890 McGaw Road in Howard County. The directions will guide you to the center. Registration and breakfast begins at 9:00am; the contest proper begins at 10:30am; please see the schedule of activites for more information.

Registration

Registration is closed for this year. Please send e-mail to James Glenn ([first-initial][last-name]@cs.loyola.edu) if you would like to be included on the mailing list for next year.

Prizes

We await word from one potential sponsor. We will announce prizes when discussions are complete.

Thanks to Northrop Grumman for their continued support of the Loyola programming contest. 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.

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, Eclipse, and Java installed. In addition, there will be remote access to a machine running Linux for teams who prefer a Unix environment. The Linux box has sadly crashed a disk and will not be rebuilt before the contest.

For more information, see the lab environment instructions.

Sample Problems

You can visit the page for the 2006-07 contest held in February 2007 for last year's problems and other information about that 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 first 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.