IPSC 2009 Programming Championship

May 30, 2009 will be held the 11th in a row annual programming championship Internet Problem Solving Contest. You can register on the official website at http://ipsc.ksp.sk . I invite to the participation of all habroos interested in sports programming.



Some information about the contest:

1. You can participate alone or a team of two or three people. You can use any number of computers and any programming languages ​​for solving problems. Separate ratings are maintained for teams of one person and teams of students. Read more in the rules .
2. Tasks on the subject are similar to the tasks of ACM ICPC, i.e. mostly algorithmic plan. The difference from ICPC is that, as solutions for verification, it is not the source code that is sent, but the output for the given input. Each task has two sets of input data - simple and complex. For the solution of a simple set is given 1 point, difficult - 2. Tasks, input / output data and solutions of previous years can be viewed in the archive .
3. This contest is very popular among "sports" programmers. By participating in it, you have a chance to compete with the best in the world. For an example, read Denis Ostapenko’s review of IPSC 2008.
4. The contest lasts 5 hours. 10-15 tasks are given. Start time in your time zone can be found here . In Moscow it is 16:00.