CSC 2700 Section 01 - Class Summary

Intro (to Isaac and class)
Class policy
- Class outline/policy
  - Intro/purpose (ICPC Facts (pdf))
  - Grading policy
  - Calendar
  - web
  - mailing list (icpc-practice)
  - Office hours
  - Homework
    - go to UVA Online judge and sign up for an account
    - Send an e-mail to class@isaac.lsu.edu with your name and your UVA ID (numeric number, not username)
    - Read student code of conduct, read Faculty handbook (pdf)
    - Review class summary (which you are doing now)
Upcoming Events
- ICPC Career Fair ?
Typical Class
- Annoucements
  - Humble Bundle
  - PackT Pub books
  - Person of the day -- importance of history, context
- Lecture/discussion
- Problem Analysis
Game - most things can be considered a game (if not all). Games tend to have the following attributes:
- Goal
- Rules
- Skill enhanced with practice
Knowing the rules often enhances chances of succeeding in a game (for example: Reading the student handbook is a good way to improve your chances at succeeding at being a student).
Quote: 20 hours at the keyboard can save you 2 hours of planning
UVA Yearly submisson statistics

Annoucements
Person of the day
- Niklaus Wirth
UVA, uHunt, uDebug
Microcomputer, minicomputer, mainframe
- microcomputer is based on a microprocessor chip. The systems performance tends to bottleneck at the I/O pins of the proccessor chip(s). When they are saturated, the system cannot go any faster. Caches and predictive sopecultion can reduce this occurrence.
- Minicomputers have the processing spread across multiple boards plugged into a bus. When this bus becomes saturated, progress stops.
- Mainframes are designed as separate modules (compute, memory, disk, ...). Modules are connected by I/O channels. When a channel becomes saturated, additional channels can be added or additional modules communicating over additional channels can help alleviate the load issues.

Annoucements
News
- USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
Person of the day
- Robert Metcalfe
  - Designer of ethernet
  - Founded 3com
  - wikipedia
  - Metcalfe's law - the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n²)
  - The History of Ethernet
  - Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe
  - The birth and rise of Ethernet: A history
  - Awards:
    - IEEE Medal of Honor
    - Member of National Academy of Engineering
Class Today
- Ethernet
- You may pick any problems from the archive that you have not done prior to this semester.
- Problem Categories
- Big O

Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class