Sunday, September 27, 2015 1:00 pm
-
4:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
The
next
Waterloo-local
ACM-style
programming
contest
will
be
held
on
Sunday,
September
27
in MC 3022
and MC 2061.
All
members
of
the University
of
Waterloo community
are
invited
to
try
their
programming
skill
in
Scheme,
C,
C++, Java,
or
Pascal.
The
results
of
this
local
contest
will
be
used
to
select
the UWaterloo teams for
the
international
ACM
competition.
We
will
send
three
teams
of three
to
the
East
Central
North
America
Regional
in
Windsor
on October
30-31.
If
we
do
well
there,
one
team
will
advance
to
the
World
Finals
in
Phuket,
Thailand
on
May
15-20,
2016.
For
full
details
and
online
registration,
please
see:
The
contest
will
run
from
1:00 pm sharp
until
4:00 pm,
and
will
be
followed by
pizza.
There
will
be
a
practice
contest
in
the
morning
to
allow contestants,
especially
those
competing
for
the
first
time,
to
get their
account
setup
and
become
familiar
with
the
contest
environment.
Contestants
participating
in
the
practice
contest
should
arrive
by
10:30
am
in MC 3022.
For
out-of-town
participants,
it
is
possible
to participate
remotely
using
a
web-based
system,
but
local
participants are
encouraged
to
attend
in
person
if
possible.
Previously,
the
Waterloo
Black
ACM
team
finished
13th
at
ICPC World
Finals
in
Morocco
in
May
of
this
year. The
Waterloo
Black
ACM
team won their
spot
at
the
world
finals
by finishing
first at the
East
Central
North
America Association
for
Computing
Machinery
Regional
Programming
Contest in
Windsor,
Ontario
in
November
2014.
UWaterloo continues to
be
the
only Canadian
University
to
win
the
ACM
International
Collegiate
Programming
Competition.