ACM Competitive Programming Club
James Madison University, Fall 2015 Semester

When:  Fridays, 2:30 to 4:30 PM    Where:  ISAT/CS 143 Linux Lab

Everyone is invited—all skill levels from CS 139 to CS 999 are welcome to join!

Online Resources

Template Files (C++, Java, Python)

C++ Tutorial  /  C++ Reference  /  STL Guide

Java API Docs  /  Collections Framework

UVa Online Judge  /  uHunt UVa Hunting

UVa Toolkit  /  uDebug   generate test cases!

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Fall 2015 Schedule

This schedule is always under construction and subject to change before/after each week!
Section numbers are from the 3rd edition of Competitive Programming by Halim and Halim.

CS 280 Syllabus (optional, if you would like to enroll for credit)

LaTeX Template File  /  LaTeX 101 Slides (for CS 280 portfolio)

Date	Prep	Notes	Contest
Sep 04	Problem A from 2013	Overview and Rules	Warm-up Problems
Sep 11	Read/Study 1.3--1.4	How to Write Code	Ad Hoc Problems 1
Sep 18	Read/Study 1.1--1.2	Tips on Competitive	Ad Hoc Problems 2
Sep 25	Read/Study 2.1--2.2	Vector, Stack, Queue	Linear Structures
Oct 02	Read/Study 2.3, STL	Sets, Maps, Bit Sets	Non-Linear Structs
ACM-ICPC North America Qualification Oct 3rd, 12:00pm-5:00pm, Online (at JMU)
Oct 09	Read/Study 2.4, STL	Graphs and Trees	Adjacency Lists
Oct 16	Read/Study 3.1--3.2	CS: Just Do It!	Complete Search
Oct 23	Read/Study 3.3	Guessing Games	Binary Search
Oct 30	Read/Study 4.1--4.2	BFS and DFS	Graph Traversal
Nov 06	Read/Study 4.4--4.5	Dijkstra's Algo	Shortest Paths
ACM-ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest Nov 7th, 12:00pm-5:00pm, Radford University
Nov 13	Regional Results	More Test Cases	ICPC Problems
Nov 20	Read/Study 5.1--5.2	Ad Hoc Math	2-Week Contest
Dec 04	Read/Study 5.3, 6.3	BigInteger, Strings	"Easy" Problems
Dec 11	Study LOLCODE	O HAI, WORLD!	Simple Input