Programming Challenges and Competitions
                         BensonMuite
                        benson.muite@ut.ee
                     http://kodu.ut.ee/ benson
                                   ˜
                        9February 2016
               Course Plan
     • Review Main Programming Concepts
     • Practice on Example Problems
     • Study Other Relevant Material
     • Generate textbook?
            Example Competitions
     • ACMICPC
     • IEEE Xtreme
     • Google Code Jam
     • Google Distributed Code Jam
     • Yandex Algorithm
     Competitive Programming Reference Books
     • Akiba, Iwata, Kitagawa, Programming Contest Challenge
      Book, 2nd Edition (Chinese Translation), PT Press (2012)
     • Arefin, The Art of Programming Contest, Gyankosh
      Prokashoni (2006) Also available as an online resource
     • Halim, Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New
      Lower Bound of Programming Contests, Lulu Press (2014)
     • Skiena, Revilla Programming Challenges The
      Programming Contest Training Manual, Springer (2003)
     • Liu, Huang, The Art of Algorithms and Programming
      contests, Tsinghua University Press, (2003) (in Chinese)