Contest Rules

Contest Format

Students will participate in teams of 1-3 people in either the Novice or Advanced division. In each division, the contest will consist of 10 algorithmic programming problems of varying difficulty to be solved in 2 hours. Example problems and solutions can be downloaded from here.

If you are a single student without a team, you may email progammingclub@students.harker.org to ask to be matched up with other incomplete teams.

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Languages

Languages offered incude C++, C#, Java, Pascal, Perl, Python, PyPy, Ruby, and Scala. Only C++, Java, and Python documentation and help will be provided

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Input and Output

​All input and output are sent to and received from the following specific consoles:

• Java System.in / System.out

• C++ cin / cout

• Python sys.stdin / sys.stdout

Internet Access and Communications

CodeForces registration information will be sent out two days before the contest. During the contest, you may not use or view any code that has been written prior to the start of the contest. Only these websites and their subdomains may be referenced:

• https://codeforces.com/

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/

• http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

• http://en.cppreference.com/w/

• https://docs.python.org/2.7/

• http://web.harker.org/programming

Awards

The top three teams in each division will receive monetary awards.