{"id":41,"date":"2007-04-03T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flashcolony.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-04-03T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T19:46:58","slug":"getting-ready-for-acm-icpc-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-acm-icpc-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for ACM ICPC 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m trying my best to practice for that coming compitition. I&#8217;m tired of losing all compititions I have been participating. From high school&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/olympiads.win.tue.nl\/ioi\/\">International Olympiad in Informatics<\/a> 2002-2003 to <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.baylor.edu\/acmicpc\/\">International Computer Programming Contest<\/a> 2006-2007. I always get bad results on the compitition.<\/p>\n<p>I got few online judges and problem sets websites I&#8217;m practicing on. One of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.uva.es\/p\/\">UVA online judge<\/a> which has thousands of problems. The other one is <a href=\"http:\/\/train.usaco.org\/usacogate\">USACO TRAINING PROGRAM GATEWAY<\/a>. I bought a programming trainning book made especially for ICPC and IOI to train my self. I also downloded the <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.uva.es\/problemset\/Art_of_Programming_Contest_SE_for_uva.pdf\">Art of Programming Contest<\/a> book from <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.uva.es\/problemset\">UVA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With all those facilities available on the giant web some people would says that it is enough to get a good rank or even the first place. However, I am sure that most of the competitors, if not all, are using almost the same facilities to train. Therefore, there should be other factors helps the compititors to get better. I think one of the factors and important factor is the support of the coach and professors in the intitution. Another factor is to provide a good environment to train us for the compitition.<\/p>\n<p>In the other hand, in my university, Kuwait university, there is no support AT ALL. We didn&#8217;t have any training nor much interest from the head of the college. How do they expect us to win the compitition if they don&#8217;t even give us trainning or atleast make a team early enough to have time so the team will coordinate and do some trainning in their own, IN THEIR OWN&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/\">ICPC <\/a> for the arab region, my university&#8217;s 2 teams participation was cancelled by the college or university administration just 1 week before we travel!. I don&#8217;t know the details, but that let us down and shows us how much NOT interested the administration are for us to praticipate in the compitition. But in last 3 days, 2 girls from the other team (thanks to them) payed a visit to the university&#8217;s president and explain the situation. The university&#8217;s president then did the required paper works to make the trip possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m trying my best to practice for that coming compitition. I&#8217;m tired of losing all compititions I have been participating. From high school&#8217;s International Olympiad in Informatics 2002-2003 to International Computer Programming Contest 2006-2007. I always get bad results on the compitition. I got few online judges and problem sets websites I&#8217;m practicing on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}