Qualifications

Non-graduating UP students (students with at least a year to stay in the University) from any course or college with or without ACM-ICPC (International) experience are qualified to join. Contestants should form exactly three members per team.

Mechanics

Each team member will be given eight (6) problems to be solved in three (3) hours. These problems include mathematical, geometrical, and analytical problems, among others, that expect a certain form of input, and the program must produce the expected output. These problems will be given in English.

Solutions to problems submitted for judging are called runs. Submissions of runs must be done via PC^2. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected, and the team is notified of the results. Rejected runs will be marked as follows:

• run-time error
• time-limit exceeded
• wrong answer
• presentation error

Notification of accepted runs will be suspended at the appropriate time to keep the final results secret. A general announcement to that effect will be made during the contest. Notification of rejected runs will continue until the end of the contest.

A contestant may submit a claim of ambiguity or error in a problem statement by submitting a clarification request. If the Judges agree that an ambiguity or error exists, a clarification will be issued to all contestants.

While the contest is scheduled to last three and a half hours, the UP ACM Executive Council has the authority to lengthen the contest in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should the Contest duration be altered, every attempt will be made to notify contestants in a timely and uniform manner.

Submissions, Clarifications, and Notifications

PC^2 is a Java-based Contest Control System that accepts submissions via a network. Submissions of solutions in this contest will be through PC^2. The contestants will be introduced to PC^2 before the contest starts (though prior knowledge of the software is an advantage).

Other issues such as clarifications and other special notifications shall be made via PC^2.

Scoring

The UP ACM Programming Competition Judges are solely responsible for determining the correctness of submitted runs. They are responsible for determining the winners of the UP ACM Programming Competition. They are empowered to adjust for or adjudicate unforeseen events and conditions. Their decisions are final.

Teams are ranked according to the most problems solved. Teams who solve the same number of problems are ranked first by least total time and, if need be, by the earliest time of submittal of the last accepted run.

The total time is the sum of the time consumed for each problem solved. The time consumed for a solved problem is the time elapsed from the beginning of the contest to the submittal of the first accepted run plus 20 penalty minutes for every previously rejected run for that problem. There is no time consumed for a problem that is not solved.

Computing Environment

The workstation shall have Windows XP as its operating system. Java 1.6 and C/C++ shall be the languages available. Editors will be vi/vim, emacs, and gedit. The Eclipse IDE shall also be made available.

Contestant Conduct in the Contest Area

Contestants are not allowed to touch anything at the workstation until instructed by the contest facilitator

Questions concerning the contest shall only be addressed to the facilitators.

Disqualification

A team may be disqualified by the contest facilitator, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representatives, for any activity that jeopardizes the UP ACM Programming Competition, including but not limited to:

• dislodging extension cords
• unauthorized modification of contest materials
• distracting behavior

The contest facilitator, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representative reserves the right to categorize a behavior as distracting.

If you have any questions, contact Manica (+63 915 465 7569).

First Place: Jason Mari Josol (Manila Science High School)
Second Place: Paolo Joseph Lobitana/Damian N. Dailisan (Philippine Science High School)
Third Place: Gabriel Alberto A. Sanchez/Carlo Nikolas M. Montenegro (Ateneo de Manila High School)

UP ACM members were invited to become resource speakers during the eSkwela ICT Camp held from November 19 to November 26, 2008 in the Central Luzon State University, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija.

Members gave lectures on audio production, web designing, video editing, and desktop publishing to the camp participants from November 22 to 23.

This is the first time the eSkwela Project and its parent institution, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), organized the ICT Camp, which strives to become “an avenue for stimulating creativity, building leadership skills, and promoting teamwork” among the Project’s learners, mobile teachers, and instructional managers.

For more information about the ICT Camp, please visit its official website. (Photo courtesy of Sheine Flores)

The Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM) now opens the online pre-registration for our events this upcoming Engineering Week 2008:

BubblEngg Frozen Bubble Gaming Competition (download Frozen Bubble here)

GuitarEngg Frets on Fire Gaming Competition (download Frets on Fire here)

CrackEngg Crack Attack Gaming Competition (download Crack Attack here)

EaSier 26 Programming Competition

Please refer to the official Engineering Week 2008 handbook to learn about the rules of our events and of other Engineering-based organizations’ activities. Our events are also brought to you by Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.

The UP ACM Membership Committee and Finance Committee is conducting a T-shirt Design Contest!

Category A: UP ACM Official Shirt

1. The UP ACM logo must be on the T-shirt and must be positioned where it is easily recognized by the eye (e.g., at the back, at the front-upper- right, at the middle).
2. The participant may choose not to follow the organization’ s colors (maroon and cerulean) in his/her design.

Category B: Fundraiser Shirt

1. You are not allowed to include the following:
   1. UP ACM Logo
   2. DCS Logo
   3. UP Logo
   4. UP Centennial Logo

1. Council Vote —- 40%
2. Member Vote —- 60%

• Category A: Free T-shirt + P500
• Category B: Free T-shirt + P250 + 5% of net sales

SALI NA!

UP ACM members, clear your calendars for the first GA of the year!

General Assembly (Recruitment and Renewal and Free food and possibly Parlor Games, haha)
Feb13, 5:00 PM @ D.Consunji Room, UP Bahay ng Alumni

See you there!