McNeese Talk
Kathy Traxler
- BS in CS From Southeastern Louisiana University at 31
- MS in CS at University of Southern Mississippi at 33
- Undergraduate Coordinator and instructor at LSU CS
- Education Outreach for LSU Center for Computation and Technology (CCT)
- Retired
Return to Top of Page
Isaac Traxler
- BS in Mathematics at University of Southern Mississippi (1980)
- Scientific Programmer/Analyst for Computer Sciences Corporation at Stennis Space Center (3 years)
- Operations Director for Academic Computing at University of Southern Mississippi (7 years)
- MS in Computer Science from University of Southern Mississippi (1990)
- Louisiana State University (32+ years)
- VMS System Administrator
- Unix System Administrator
- High Performance Computing System Administrator
- Part time instructor at USM and LSU
Return to Top of Page
International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
- Undergraduate Contest
- 5 hours, 1 computer, 3 people, no internet
- ICPC Fact Sheet
- True worldwide contest
- 130+ teams with 20+ coming from North America (USA and Canada)
Return to Top of Page
About SCUSA/Big South/NAC/WFs
ICPC is a tiered contest system:
- Local Contest
- Regional Contest
- Super Regional Contest
- World Finals
South Central USA Region include Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. We have partnered with
Southeast USA and Mid-Atlantic USA to form the Big South. SCUSA is a distributed contest
with multiple sites with the dream of having enough sites that no team is more than 1-2
hours away.
Return to Top of Page
Why Contest? (ICPC)
- Solving problems in a contest is a mini version of Software Development Lifecycle Development (minus the evolution part)
- Requirements Analysis
- Design
- Implementation
- Testing
- Skill building
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Hidden complexity recognition
- Data structure
- Algorithms
- Time management
- Resource Management
- Toolbox: Your teachers provide you with a good solid set of tools to succeed in
the world of computing. Contest gives you a chance to pull the tools out and use them until you
are familiar with them.
- Benchmark: A periodic chance to compare yourself to students at schools in the Region
and/or country/world. A chance to mark your progress.
Return to Top of Page
Resources
Return to Top of Page