• Class 00 - 13-January-2026
• Class 01 - 20-January-2026
• Class 02 - 27-January-2026
• Class 03 - 3-February-2026
• Class 04 - 10-February-2026
• Mardi Gras - 17-February-2026
• Class 05 - 24-February-2026
• Class 06 - 3-March-2026
• Spring Break - 10-March-2026
• North America Championship - 17-March-2026
• Class 07 - 24-March-2026
• Class 08 - 31-March-2026
• Class 09 - 7-April-2026
• Class 10 - 14-April-2026
• Class 11 - 21-April-2026
• Class 12 - 28-April-2026 (Final)

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Class 00: 13-January-2026

• Annoucements
  • Humble Bundle
  • PackT Pub books
  • LSU Solvers
  
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• No class -- I am out sick

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Class 01: 20-January-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 02: 27-January-2026

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

• 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
• UVA, uHunt, uDebug, toolbox
• (*) 100 - The 3n + 1 problem Online Judge Cached

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Class 03: 3-February-2026

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

• 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
• Ethernet stuff
• Problem Categories
• Number Theory
• Isaac's Problem Set Guidelines - understanding how to design a problem set helps figure out how to approach solving a problem set

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Class 04: 10-February-2026

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

• Person of the day

  • Niklaus Wirth
    • Wikipedia
    • Wirth's Law
    • Pascal, Modula, Modula-2
    • ACM Turing Award
    • WikiQuote
    • Books at Amazon
• Cores, cache, ...
• Continuum
• Arrays

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Mardi Gras: 17-February-2026

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Class 05: 24-February-2026

• 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
• Computer Language Categories
• Computer Languages

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Class 06: 3-March-2026

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

• Person of the day

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

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Spring Break: 10-March-2026

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North America Championship: 17-March-2026

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Class 07: 24-March-2026

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

• Person of the day

  • Kenneth Iverson
    • wikipedia
    • wikiquote
    • IBM Selectric (golf ball) typewriter was side project
    • APL
      • APL
      • APL Wiki
      • Why APL is a language worth knowing
      • THE APL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SOURCE CODE
      • Dyalog
      • Learning APL
    • Awards:
      • IBM Fellow, IBM
      • Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE Computer Society
      • Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA)
      • Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery
      • Computer Pioneer Award (Charter recipient), IEEE Computer Society
• Brief intro to APL (Dyalog)
• Brief review of NAC
  • NAC
  • Photos
  • Scoreboard
  • Problem Set
  • Problem Analysis

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Class 08: 31-March-2026

• 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
• Binary number storage
• My Approach to solving contest problems
• Greatesxt Common Divisor

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Class 09: 7-April-2026

• 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
• Dynamic Programming
• Flood Fill

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Class 10: 14-April-2026

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

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Class 11: 21-April-2026

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Class 12: 28-April-2026 (Final)

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