Competitive Programming

Dear students,

the final exam takes place this Wednesday, 15 July at 12:30 sharp in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall (E2.2). Please arrive a few minutes early and bring your student ID, an official ID card/passport and your laptop (+charger) with the exam VM installed. You are allowed to bring an external mouse and (non-programmable) keyboard if you like. Please also bring something to drink as the exam will take 180 minutes.

You can submit your cheatsheet via CMS until tomorrow, 14 July at 12:00. We can’t accept any cheatsheets sent to us after this deadline.

Tomorrow’s tutorials will be a Q&A-session regarding all topics from the lecture, or questions about the the 2024-final mock exam.

The online judge will be unavailable from tomorrow (late) afternoon until the exam.

Dear students,

the final exam takes place on Wednesday, 15 July, at 12:30 sharp in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall (E2.2).

Please bring your student ID, an official ID card/passport, and your laptop (+ charger). Make sure you have the exam VM installed and tested (booting, eduroam, and solution submission). You can re-use the VM from the midterm. Please delete the files you created during the midterm before the main exam. If you experienced any technical issues during the midterm, please visit next week’s tutorial, raise this after the next lecture, or write us an E-mail.

Please submit your cheat sheet (.txt, max. 200 000 characters) via CMS by 14 July, 12:00. The registration deadline (LSF or CMS, depending on your course) is 8 July.

The exam covers Lectures 1–11. No explicit questions about later lectures will be asked, although general techniques from them may still be useful. A mock exam (2024-final) is now available, and solution spoilers will be released next week.

If you are unable to bring a laptop or experience any problems, please contact us as soon as possible.

Last: We fixed the re-exam to take place on 21 September at 13:00.

Dear students,

the final results of the midterm are available on your personal status page. As announced, if you got an accepted verdict, you achieved the full points for the respective (sub)task. If you submitted but did not get accepted, we reviewed your last submission and awarded partial points.

We offer a small exam inspection next Wednesday (June 3) right after the lecture.

Dear students,

the midterm exam takes place tomorrow at 14:00 sharp. Please be on time.

Please bring your student ID and an official ID card/passport as well as a laptop (+ charger) with you. Make sure you have set up the exam VM on your laptop and deleted all created files except config files and your cheatsheet.

The online judge will be unavailable from now on until the exam.

Dear students,

for the midterm exam, please install the exam VM as soon as possible. Please follow all instructions here: https://cms.sic.saarland/cp26/2/VM

In case you have any problems, please contact us in one of the following two troubleshooting sessions:

• Tomorrow (20.05.), right after the lecture - just come to the front table after the lecture.
• Tuesday (26.05.), in your respective tutorial.

Nothing has changed compared to the preview version. If you have already installed and tested the preview version, you do not need to perform any action.

Dear students,

as you might have noticed, our online judge is currently down. We hope to bring it back up soon. To give you more time to work on the problems, we have decided to extend the deadline for exercise sheet 5 to next Monday, May 18 at 23:59. Although the judge is down, you can still find the exercise sheet in the CMS and work on the tasks already now.

Dear students,

due to low attendence, we have decided to merge our tutorials. Your timeslot stays the same, just the room might have changed. All 10:15 tutorials now take place in SR 016 in E1.3 and all 16:15 tutorials now take place in SR 015 in E1.3. You can also find your tutorial room on your personal status page.

We encourage you to attend the tutorials and to upsolve all problems on the exercise sheet that you weren't able to complete before.