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Welcome to the 2013-2014 season of the USA Computing Olympiad!

As in past years, the USACO coaching staff plans to offer six monthly on-line programming contests this season:

Nov 15-18: November Contest
Dec 13-16: December Contest
Jan 10-13: January Contest
Feb 7-10: February Contest
Mar 7-10: March Contest
April 4-7: US Open

Contests are free and open to all.  They are targeted specifically at pre-college students, although others may compete as observers, ranked separately.

Contests are available in three levels of difficulty: bronze (novice), silver (intermediate), and gold (advanced):

- Bronze-level problems are designed to be accessible to those with basic programming knowledge and minimal algorithmic training (e.g., sorting, recursion).

- Silver problems involve "standard" algorithmic techniques (e.g., shortest paths, straightforward dynamic programming, greedy algorithms).

- Gold problems are quite challenging, requiring clever combinations of sophisticated algorithmic ideas.

All new competitors start out in the bronze level, and earn promotion to higher levels by demonstrating excellent performance on a contest in their current level.  Contests are usually 3-5 consecutive hours in duration, which students can schedule any time during a 4-day contest window.  Students can submit programs in C, C++, Java, Pascal, or Python.  All contests are taken individually.

Our website (http://www.usaco.org) offers hundreds of hours of free on-line training materials for those seeking additional resources to help improve their algorithmic coding skills.

The very best students in the USA who excel in our contests will be invited to attend the USACO summer training camp in late May, where they will receive advanced instruction and the opportunity to compete for membership in the 4-person team representing the USA at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the most prestigious high-school computing contest at the international level.  Last summer, team USA turned in an impressive showing at IOI 2013 in Brisbane, Australia, with two gold and two silver medals.  IOI 2014 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan.

For additional information, please see our website: http://www.usaco.org

We're looking forward to a challenging and fun season!

Happy coding,

- Brian

  Brian C. Dean (bcdean@clemson.edu)
  Director, USA Computing Olympiad
  Associate Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University
  Box 340974 | Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0974

7.11.2013, четвъртък,  доц. Красимир Манев

31.10.2013, четвъртък, 18:00, НБУ, зала 110-2 - занятие на Школата за нови състезатели
Тема: Комбинаторика и графи - въведение, доц. Красимир Манев

24.10.2013, четвъртък, 18:00,  НБУ, зала 308-1 - занятие на Школата за нови състезатели
Тема: "Лесни" задачи - Н. Киров
Задачи: 
Reverse: a.in, a.out, a.cpp; Анаграми: j.inp, j.out, j.cpp;
 Elections: nkk1.inp, nkk1.out, nkk1.cpp; Повтарящи се числа: c.cpp
(моля студентите, които присъстваха на това занятие да ми изпртят мейл с име, фак. номер, програма, курс)

Пътуване за Букурещ: 11.10.2013, петък
The SouthEastern European Regional Contest of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 12 October 2013, Bucharest.
Връщане от Букурещ: 13.10.2013, неделя