|[ACM]| FW: MICS 2005 Programming Contest - final notes

[Anda, Andrew A.]

I hope this gets to all involved in time.
 
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PS good luck & see you there...
 
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From: Wagner, Paul J. [mailto:WAGNERPJ at uwec.edu]
Sent: Thu 4/7/2005 10:08 AM
To: Wolf, Marty; Anda, Andrew A. ; Arlien, Karen; Ashbacher, Charles; Fienup, Mark; Hall, Mark; Hansen, Stu; Haugrud, Michael; Jones, Jim; Kaiser, Dan; Machkasova, Elena; Piotrowski, Victor; Rosato, Jen; Shanmugasundaram, Vijayakumar; Sutherland, Karen; Varghese, Anthony; Wagner, Paul J.
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Subject: MICS 2005 Programming Contest - final notes



We're almost there - a few final notes for you and your teams. 

We have a few confirmed judging laptops from you folks, and will have a few here as well.  There should be enough, but if you want to try judging with PC^2, please bring your laptop with PC^2 software pre-loaded and we can hook you in.  We could use another Linux judging laptop if anyone has or can get PC^2 running on a Linux laptop.

Final notes for your teams: 
- there will be 5 problems to solve over 2.5 hours (7:30 - 10:00 PM); problems will be named prob1, prob2, prob3, prob4, prob5

- input will generally be expected from the file probX.dat (e.g. prob1.dat for prob1).  There is one problem (prob5) that has no user input, and thus no file is needed.

- output should go to the console only (no GUI output is allowed - this will result in a wrong answer response) 
- the messages returned by the judges will be: yes (runs correctly), no: compilation error, no: run-time error, no: time-limit exceeded, no: wrong answer, no: excessive output, no: output format error, or no: other-contact staff.  No further explanations will be given.

- clarification questions can be asked and responses given through PC^2.  Students should be sure to read the problem specifications very carefully to make sure the answer isn't already specified.

We'll spend a few minutes to reiterate these points at 7:00 PM on Friday, then spend up to 25 minutes working to make sure that everyone can connect to the server.  We plan to start the contest at 7:30 PM, so again teams should have Java and PC2 software installed and environment variables set on their machines, so that all we have to do is copy in the contest server initialization files and start the team submission software.

Looking forward to the contest - see you on Friday night! 

Paul 

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