- Class 00 - 27-August-2024
- Class 01 - 3-September-2024
- Class 02 - 10-September-2024
- Class 03 - 17-September-2024
- Class 04 - 24-September-2024
- Class 05 - 31-September-2024
- Class 06 - 1-October-2024
- North American Qualifier - 5-October-2024
- Class 07 - 8-October-2024
- Class 08 - 15-October-2024
- Class 09 - 22-October-2024
- Class 10 - 29-October-2024
- Class 11 - 5-November-2024
- Class 12 - 12-November-2024
- ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest - 16-November-2024
- Class 13 - 19-November-2024
- Class 14 - 26-November-2024
- Class 15 - 3-December-2024
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Class 00: 27-August-2024
- 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)
- Class outline/policy
- Upcoming Events
- ICPC NAQ
- ICPC Career Fair ?
- ICPC South Central Regional Programming Contest
- Typical Class
- Annoucements
- Humble Bundle
- PackT Pub books
- Person of the day -- importance of history, context
- Lecture/discussion
- Problem Analysis
- Annoucements
- 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
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Class 01: 3-September-2024
- Annoucements
- Humble Bundle
- PackT Pub books
- NAQ North America Qualifier Programming Contest
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:
- Online judge, udebug, uhunt
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Class 02: 10-September-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Class cancelled tonight due to impending hurricane Francine
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Class 03: 17-September-2024
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Class 04: 24-September-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Stephen Bourne
- Wikipedia
- Bourne Shell (wikipedia)
- Macros from SH
- Algol 68
- Advanced Debugger
- Stephen Bourne
- More discussion about Online judge, udebug, uhunt
- Brought up Algorithmist and in particular the section about online judge.
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Class 05: 31-September-2024
- Announcements
Person of the day
- Out sick - class canceled
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Class 06: 1-October-2024
- Announcements
Person of the day
- Out sick - class canceled
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North American Qualifier: 5-October-2024
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Class 07: 8-October-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
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Class 08: 15-October-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Lots of discussion about legal vs moral vs ethics
- Easist to edit: hardware vs firmware vs software (all same things, just different implementation methods)
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Class 09: 22-October-2024
- Announcements
- Humble Bundle
- PackT Pub books
- SCUSA Regional
- ACM
- ACM Meeting - Thursday 7 PM at PFT 3250H
- ACM Discord Invite
Person of the day
- How to approach solving contest problems
- Cover some of Problem Set Guidelines
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Class 10: 29-October-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Donald Knuth
- Stanford web page (where he is Professor Emeritus)
- Wikipedia
- Art of Computer Programming
- WikiQuotes
- More quotes
- xkcd
- ACM Turing Award
- Brief biography
- Books
- Amazon -- Knuth books
- Kindle Store
- Articles about "The Art of Computer Programming"
- Overleaf (One of many online TeX services for collaboration)
- Donald Knuth
- Problem Set Guidelines
- How to Approach a Programing Contest
- References -- see Cheat sheets
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Class 11: 5-November-2024
- Annoucements
- Humble Bundle
- PackT Pub books
- SCUSA Regional
- ACM Meeting
- 2024-11-7
- 7:00 PM
- Guest Speaker: Austin Webre
- PFT 3250h
- Pizza provided
Person of the day
- Music
- Continuum of a Program
- Array Tricks
- Flood Fill
- (*) 11137 - Ingenuous Cubrency Online Judge Cached
- (*) 10276 - Hanoi Tower Troubles Again! Online Judge Cached
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Class 12: 12-November-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Richard Stallman
- Fundamental idea: Free as in beer
In a nutshell, the word "free" has a couple of meanings and it's not always possible to tell in context which one the user meant. "Free as in beer" refers to the cost (i.e. money) of the software, while "free as in speech" refers to what you are allowed to do with the software.
- His personal Page
- Wikipedia
- WikiQuote
- GNU Project
- Free Software Foundation
- A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation
- Fundamental idea: Free as in beer
- Richard Stallman
- References
- Style
- Contest Links
- (*) 11137 - Ingenuous Cubrency Online Judge Cached
- (*) 10276 - Hanoi Tower Troubles Again! Online Judge Cached
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ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest: 16-November-2024
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Class 13: 19-November-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Kenneth Iverson
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- IBM Selectric (golf ball) typewriter was side project
- APL
- Awards:
- IBM Fellow, IBM
- Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE Computer Society
- Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA)
- Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery
- Computer Pioneer Award (Charter recipient), IEEE Computer Society
- Kenneth Iverson
- Binary Encoding
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Class 14: 26-November-2024
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Network design, World Wide Web, HTTP
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Cool URIs don't change
- Awards:
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
- Turing Award
- Tim Berners-Lee
- GCD
- Programming Languages
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Class 15: 3-December-2024
Final Tonight!
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