Anyone done any compsci competitions? I'm doing a team (4-guys, one comp) tomorrow for the city of toronto, and I did the U of Waterloo one last week. They seem to put more emphasis on the logical aspect of coding rather than the 'rote' knowledge of commands and so on.
It's unusual to be put under such pressure to code fast... 5 programs in three hours.
Cool!
Can't say I have.
Problems tend to be somewhat interesting > I found the national compsci thingamagigie sometime a few months ago. It's in my website's links page somewhere... But I am way too late for last year's national contest I think.
I wish I could... the Montgomery County fair has contests for everything except programming. This is the 21st century, people!!! :x
Quote:Cool! Can't say I have.
Problems tend to be somewhat interesting > I found the national compsci thingamagigie sometime a few months ago. It's in my website's links page somewhere... But I am way too late for last year's national contest I think.
Here's some of the past problems for the Waterloo one:
http://www.cmc.uwaterloo.ca/ccc/2000/1-probs.html
I particularly like 'Babbling Brooks' -- it leaves a lot of different options as far as how you solve it. I think a linked list would be most elegant, but there's different options as far as shuffling arrays and stuff, too.