Competitive Programming

Dear students,

the registration and cheat-sheet deadline for the Midterm exam is today at 23:59.

The exam will happen on Wednesday at 14:00 (s.t. / sharp) in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall. Please arrive a few minutes early to boot your computer. Remember to bring a laptop with the VM installed with you.

Our online judge will have a planned downtime from tomorrow in the late afternoon until shortly before the exam. Please check that you can reach the judge from your VM beforehand. Also, if you want to submit any solutions for past exercise sheets or the mock midterm, please do this until tomorrow afternoon.

Starting Tuesday at noon, you will be able to download your cheat-sheet inside the VM (open the file called important-links.html, click on Cheat-Sheet). You can save your cheat-sheet e.g. on your Desktop.

Dear students,

the registration for the midterm exam is now possible. Please register on your personal status page in CMS until Monday, 10. June 23:59. You also have to submit your cheat sheet there. Registration in LSF is not necessary.

To participate in the exams, you need to install a custom virtual machine. Installation should be done as soon as possible. Please follow the installation instructions at https://cms.sic.saarland/cp24/2/VM.

If you encounter any difficulties while installing the VM, we offer an extra office hour on Wednesday June 5 from 16:00-16:45 (right after the lecture). The office hour will take place in E1.3 HS 002. Additionally, there will be an office hour for technical problems on Monday June 10 from 12:00-13:00 in Room 622, E1 5. Please contact us as early as possible if there are any problems with installation.

To participate in the midterm exam, please read the exam guide https://cms.sic.saarland/cp24/3/Exams. Further information regarding the exams will be announced in the next lecture.

We have prepared a practice contest, which will be released after the lecture on Wednesday. The contest is last iterations midterm exam.

Competitive programming is like a sport. In the same way, as in sports, there are competitions and training sessions. If you would like to solve hard problems, compete with others, and travel around Europe (and the world), join our ICPC training telegram chat. We will hold meetings, discussions, lectures, and training sessions. If you are interested, join using this link: https://t.me/+xjeGeV7df144ZTdi.
Note that this is NOT connected to the course in any way. Participating in ICPC training will neither affect your grade for the course nor give you any additional credit points. Join solely for your personal interest. What it will affect though is your NWERC performance :)

P.S. Note that the number of places at NWERC for each university is limited, so eliminations will be held to decide who will go to NWERC. Participation in the ICPC training will also help you prepare for this elimination.

Dear students,

we have assigned the tutorials. You can find your tutorial on your personal status page.

Tutorials start on Thursday this week. In preparation for the first tutorial, you can already create an account on Codeforces and join our group. We prepared instructions on how to use Codeforces here: https://cms.sic.saarland/cp24/4/Codeforces.

Dear students,

please do not forget to enter your tutorial preferences today. This can be done on your personal status page.

In the tutorials, we will use Codeforces for additional problems. In preparation for the first tutorial, you can already create an account on Codeforces and join our group. We prepared instructions on how to use Codeforces here: https://cms.sic.saarland/cp24/4/Codeforces.