DeepCS - CS Students @ NJIT

General Description

DeepCS is very pleased to host the Programming Contest VI @ NJIT for NJIT students.

This will be an online contest and is being organized in 2 phases. The first phase will be the registration phase and the second will be the actual contest. Once registration starts, any NJIT student will be able to register for participation using their UCID. During the day of the contest, the questions will be posted on DeepCS website. A registered participant will get an email before the contest starts on saturday and be able to access the questions using the password provided in the email. (the link will also be available on DeepCS website)

A contestant will have 5 hrs to solve a series of programming questions (approx. 6). These questions will vary in difficulty level start from easy to moderate to difficult to very difficult. At the end of the 5 hr period, a contestant should email the solutions to deepcs@oak.njit.edu. Further instructions on how to send can be found at the bottom of this page.

A team of upto 2 students is allowed. You may participate alone if you wish so. There will be 2 winners for this contest. Once again, ANY NJIT graduate student can participate in this contest.

Registration

Programming Platforms

A contestant may program in C, C++ or JAVA. Since DeepCS will be using NJIT computers to test the solutions submitted any software that is on a NJIT computer for C, C++ and JAVA will be allowed.

Date & Time

The contest will start on 12.00 pm EST on April 26, 2008 and will end on 4.00 pm EST on April 26, 2008.

Grading and Evaluation Policy

At this time the following scheme will be used for selecting the winners(3)

The contestant who gets the MAXIMUM POINTS will be the winner.
If there is a tie, then the ratio MAXIMUM POINTS / MINIMUM TIME will determine the winners.
If there is still a tie, the running time of the programs determines the winner (from tough questions to easier ones)

A participant will have 5 hours (Apr 26, 12.00 pm to Apr 26, 5.00 pm) to solve and submit his/her solution. Any submissions made after the deadline will not be considered during the evaluation process.

Submission Instructions

Here are the general instructions on how to submit your solutions.

Create a 'README' file which contains instructions on how to compile and run your programs. Also include your njit email addr. in this file.
For submitting your solutions, please use the following procedure.

Name your files in the following format 'problem_x.c', 'problem_x.cpp' or 'problem_x.java' where x = 1..n

Make a tar or zip file containing all your solutions. Name the tar or zip file as 'yourname_id.tar or 'yourname_Id.zip'

where id : 'Reg #' that you got in the confirmation email

yourname: lastname followed by firstname

e.g.: If John Smith has a Reg# 777, then he should submit all his solutions in smithjohn_777.tar or smithjohn_777.zip

Include your README file also in the tar/zip file.

Attach this tar / zip file to the mail. Write in the mail a list of the contents of the tar/zip file so that we can verfiy that we recieved all the required files.
Mail your solutions to deepcs@oak.njit.edu
Multiple submissions are not allowed. For example, you CANNOT submit 4 solutions in one email and the rest in another email. Only one submission per team will be considered. Hence make sure that you send us only one email with all your solutions in it.
Your submissions must be recieved on or before 5.00 pm EST Apr. 26, 2008.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. We shall try to answer them promptly

Fine Print

By registering for the contest, a participant is providing the Programming Contest Organizing Committee with his/her approval to receive any contest related e-mail on his/her NJIT e-mail address from any member of the Programming Contest Organizing Committee. One can find the list of members of the Programming Contest Organizing Commitee below.

Organizing Committee
Vandanaben Patel	vgp22 AT njit.edu
Josiane Nzouonta	jn62 AT njit.edu