Summary

• Class 00 - 21-August-2012
• Class 01 - 28-August-2012
• Class 02 - 4-September-2012
• Class 03 - 11-September-2012
• Class 04 - 18-September-2012
• Class 05 - 25-September-2012
• Class 06 - 2-October-2012
• Class 07 - 9-October-2012
• Class 08 - 16-October-2012
• ACM Soutch Central Regional Programming Contest - 20-October-2012
• Class 09 - 23-October-2012
• Class 10 - 30-October-2012
• Class 11 - 6-November-2012
• Class 12 - 13-November-2012
• Class 13 - 20-November-2012
• Final - 27-November-2012

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Class 00: 21-August-2012

• Cover class rules, grading policy
• We do have Regional Contest coming up:
  • Oct 19-20: ACM ICPC Soutch Central Regional Programming Contest
  • Reg deadline September 30
  • Need to pick teams by registration time
• Talked a little about ACM
• briefly mentioned that hardware and software can be thought of perspectives of the same thing.
• Foreshadowed code and data as opposite ends of a continuum
• problems discussed:

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Class 01: 28-August-2012

• Hurricane Isaac pre-empted class

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Class 02: 4-September-2012

• An author who was not well read and could not discuss the authors that were his big influences would not be taken seriously. Why do programmers feel that they do not need to read code?
• Computer languages
  • benefits/drawbacks of various languages
  • do we need to know multiple languages?
  • Has new language development slowed
  • Column oriented languages
  • backward compatiablitity -- importance?
  • alked about UVA Online Judge
• Problems discussed:

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Class 03: 11-September-2012

• ICPC SCUSA Regional Programming Contest
  • Registration at discounted rate ends Sept 30; teams need to be chosen by then
  • Test image!
  • Install image volunteers
  • localdoc.scusa.lsu.edu
  • Practice contests: Sep 22 (maybe), Oct 6
• ICPC 2012 North American Qualification Contest
  • Think of this as a practice contest
  • Teams from all over North America will compete, scoring will be by region
  • Contest is Sep 29 from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM (we have a home game, so you will have to find somewhere [off campus] to compete from with Internet)
  • Great time to get used to the regional image
  • Teams must be registered by Sep 21
  • no prevention of Internet access - but should be competed as if you are in real contest (1 computer, no use made of internet, 3 people)
  • would be useful if you can print wherever you compete
  • web used for upload of submissions, clarifications, scoreboard (maybe to access localdoc)
• approaches to competing
• Problem discussed:

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Class 04: 18-September-2012

• ICPC 2012 North American Qualification Contest -- we have a place to meet! -- LSU South Campus
• link to LiveCD -- need md5sum
  ACM2012 LSU environment
  Live DVD Image MD5 Sum: 38a1093e2eb025b5a032261adc34b039 (about 1.5 GB)
  
• Problem discussed:

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Class 05: 25-September-2012

• Map to Saturday Contest
• Contest is 2:00-7:00 PM, I suggest getting there around 1:30.
• Talked about upcoming qualifier
• Talked about approach methodology
• Talked about cheat sheets

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Class 06: 2-October-2012

• Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • WikiPedia
  • Goto Considered Harmful
  • Structured Programming
  • Dijkstra's algorithm
  • Shortest Path
  • Floyd–Warshall algorithm
  • Flood fill
  • Dynamic programming

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Class 07: 9-October-2012

• Choosing teams for Regional
• Schedule
• GO to Contest Web Site and read everything
• Went over 1 problem from Qualifier

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Class 08: 16-October-2012

• Talked anbout upcoming contest
• Problems from last regional 2011 problem index

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Class regional: 20-October-2012

• ACM ICPC South Central Regional Programming Contest (during Fall Break)

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Class 09: 23-October-2012

• Discussed the Regional Contest
• Went over first 3 problems from regional

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Class 10: 30-October-2012

• discussed problems 4-6 from regional

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Class 11: 6-November-2012

• discussed problems 7-8 of our regional

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Class 12: 13-November-2012

• Guest lecturer

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Class 13: 20-November-2012

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Class 14: 27-November-2012

• Final taken this day
• Fudge (planned)
• Apples to Apples (planned)

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