CSC 2700 Section 01 - Class Summary

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

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

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

Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class