• Class 00 - 25-August-2026
• Class 01 - 1-September-2026
• Class 02 - 8-September-2026
• Class 03 - 15-September-2026
• Class 04 - 22-September-2026
• Class 05 - 29-September-2026
• North American Qualifier - 3-October-2026
• Class 06 - 6-October-2026
• Class 07 - 13-October-2026
• Class 08 - 20-October-2026
• Class 09 - 27-October-2026
• Class 10 - 3-November-2026
• ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest - 7-November-2026
• Class 11 - 10-November-2026
• Class 12 - 17-November-2026
• Class 13 - 24-November-2026
• Class 14 - 2-December-2026

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Class 00: 25-August-2026

• 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: 1-September-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • North America Qualifier (October 3, 2026)
  
  

• 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
• Showed Optimem 1202M disk
  • From Google: The Optimem 1202M is a vintage 12-inch Write Once, Read Many (WORM) optical disk drive that was prominent in high-capacity data archiving during the mid-to-late 1980s. Originally engineered under a subsidiary of Xerox (and later acquired by Cipher Data Products in 1986), the Optimem line was foundational for early enterprise-level "tamperproof" physical storage
  • About 1 GB
• Online Judge, uHunt and uDebug
• local UVA mirror
• Toolbox
• (*) 100 - The 3n + 1 problem Online Judge Cached

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Class 02: 8-September-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • North America Qualifier (October 3, 2026)
  
  

• 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
• Contest Notepads
• 1 + 1 + 1 > 3
• Approach
• Style

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Class 03: 15-September-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • North America Qualifier (October 3, 2026)
  
  

• 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
• Problem Categories
• Continuum

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Class 04: 22-September-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • North America Qualifier (October 3, 2026)
  
  

• 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
• Contimuum
• Arrays
• Big O - also, chapter2 (pages 17-24) of class textbook

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Class 05: 29-September-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • North America Qualifier (October 3, 2026)
  
  

• 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)
• Reading Code
• Binary Encoding
• GCD
• (!) 11518 - Dominos 2 Online Judge Cached
• (!) 10161 - Ant on a Chessboard Online Judge Cached

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North American Qualifier: 3-October-2026

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Class 06: 6-October-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • South Cemtral USA Regional (November 7, 2026)
  
  

• Person of the day

  • Niklaus Wirth
    • Wikipedia
    • Wirth's Law
    • Pascal, Modula, Modula-2
    • ACM Turing Award
    • WikiQuote
    • Books at Amazon
• Review NAQ
• (!) 11518 - Dominos 2 Online Judge Cached
• (!) 10161 - Ant on a Chessboard Online Judge Cached
• Asimov vs Clark: 5 AI Warnings That are coming True
• Binary Encoding

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Class 07: 13-October-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • South Cemtral USA Regional (November 7, 2026)
  
  

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Class 08: 20-October-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • South Cemtral USA Regional (November 7, 2026)
  
  

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Class 09: 27-October-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • South Cemtral USA Regional (November 7, 2026)
  
  

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Class 10: 3-November-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  • South Cemtral USA Regional (November 7, 2026)
  
  

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ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest: 7-November-2026

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Class 11: 10-November-2026

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

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Class 12: 17-November-2026

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

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Class 13: 24-November-2026

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

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Class 14: 2-December-2026

• Final tonight

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