• Class 00 - 26-August-2025
• Class 01 - 2-September-2025
• Class 02 - 9-September-2025
• Class 03 - 16-September-2025
• Class 04 - 23-September-2025
• Class 05 - 30-September-2025
• Class 06 - 7-October-2025
• North American Qualifier - 11-October-2025
• Class 07 - 14-October-2025
• Class 08 - 21-October-2025
• Class 09 - 28-October-2025
• Class 10 - 4-November-2025
• ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest - 8-November-2025
• Class 11 - 11-November-2025
• Class 12 - 18-November-2025
• Class 13 - 25-November-2025
• Class 14 - 3-December-2025

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Class 00: 26-August-2025

• 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

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Class 01: 2-September-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
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• No class -- I am in Baku for ICPC World Finals

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Class 02: 9-September-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

• Person of the day

  • Stephen Bourne
    • Wikipedia
    • Bourne Shell (wikipedia)
    • Macros from SH
    • Algol 68
    • Advanced Debugger
• UVA, uHunt, uDebug, toolbox
• Punched card

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Class 03: 16-September-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

• 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"
      • The Art Of Computer Programming - A Great Present
      • Reflections on a year of reading Knuth
      • Hacker News
    • Overleaf (One of many online TeX services for collaboration)
• Problem Categories
• Continuum
• Arrays
• Coding Style
• Reading Code
• Rules to get better grades with less effort

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Class 04: 23-September-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

• 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
• Problem Set Composition
• How to solve
• My Approach

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Class 05: 30-September-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • NAQ
  
  

• Person of the day

  • Andrew Sorenson
    • Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
    • Impromptu
    • Extempore
    • Impromptu Web Site
    • Google Scholar
• Music
• Contest Links
• Binary

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Class 06: 7-October-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • NAQ
  
  

• 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
• NAQ
• 3 * 1 = 4
• Prime number
• (*) 10680 - LCM Online Judge Cached
• Greatest Common Divisor
• Number Theory
• Dynamic Programming

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North American Qualifier: 11-October-2025

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Class 07: 14-October-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  
• Class cancelled tonight - Isaac ill

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Class 08: 21-October-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

• Person of the day

  • Alan Kay
    • Wikipedia
    • ACM Turing Award
    • Co-developer of Smalltalk
    • Ted
    • Dynabook at wikipedia
    • Alan Kay on Quora about Dynabook
    • Dynabook
    • Quotes
• Went over many of the problems from NAQ

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Class 09: 28-October-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

• Person of the day

  • Ken Thompson
    • Creator/co-creator of Unix, B (predecessor of C), GO, Plan 9, QED, ed, utf-8,
    • grep
    • Lot of work on regular expressions
    • Wikipedia
    • Awards include: Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, National Medal of Technology, Tsutomu Kanai Award, Japan Prize
    • Chess
      • Creation of endgame tablebase
      • Creator of Belle
      • Wrote "chess" for Unix (early chess program)
    • Wikiquote

• Person of the day

  • Dennis Ritchie
    • Wikipedia
    • Creations (co)
      • B programming language
      • C programming language
      • Unix
    • Awards: Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellows of the Computer History Museum, National Medal of Technology, Japan Prize for Information and Communications
    • Wikiquote
• Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
• Need a team for icpc

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Class 10: 4-November-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

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ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest: 8-November-2025

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Class 11: 11-November-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

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Class 12: 18-November-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

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Class 13: 25-November-2025

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
  

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Class 14: 3-December-2025

• Final tonight

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