The Fall 2008 Berkeley Programming Contest, sponsored by Google(tm), will take place on Saturday, 27 September 2008. If you wish to participate, please register here. We'll keep you posted about updates.
Please check the announcement board for current status, if you are participating remotaely.
The results are in from the 2006 Berkeley Programming Contest. The following list shows number of problems solved (2 or more), the average submission time of the solved problems (in minutes from the beginning of the contest, with a 20-minute penalty for each erroneous submission of a solved problem), and the number of erroneous submissions.
| Place | Contestant | Solved | Avg. time | Errors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gary Sivek | 4 | 506.0 | 0 |
| 2 | Svetoslav Kolev | 4 | 545.5 | 2 |
| 3 | Joseph Lim | 4 | 570.8 | 1 |
| 4 | Hisham Zarka | 4 | 702.0 | 3 |
| 5 | Rehan Ryan Waliany | 4 | 783.8 | 4 |
| 6 | Chi-Hong John Ng | 3 | 254.2 | 0 |
| 7 | James Cook | 3 | 306.6 | 0 |
| 8 | Yiding Jia | 3 | 413.4 | 1 |
| 9 | Tobin Fricke | 3 | 447.8 | 1 |
| 10 | Stephen Curran | 3 | 533.8 | 2 |
| 11 | Yi Ding | 3 | 566.1 | 3 |
| 12 | Ken Elkabany | 3 | 591.4 | 3 |
| 13 | Aaron Staley | 2 | 321.5 | 2 |
| 14 | Ryan Zheng | 2 | 321.9 | 0 |
| 15 | James Hamlin | 2 | 337.6 | 1 |
| 16 | Ian Henderson | 2 | 386.5 | 1 |
| 17 | Meiying Li | 2 | 427.9 | 0 |
| 18 | Michael Greenbaum | 2 | 458.7 | 3 |
Many thanks for another smoothly running contest to all the contestants and to Kevin Mullally and the instructional-computing staff.
Since 1991, the Computer Science Division has sponsored an informal programming contest each fall, the top placers of which form that year's Berkeley teams in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (``ACM'' stands for the Association for Computing Machinery). Contests like this are becoming common. Here's an article on the subject.
As in the ACM contests, our contestants have five hours in which to write working solutions (in C, C++, or Java) to about eight programming problems. We score by the number of correct solutions, breaking ties on the basis of the total time required to complete the correct submissions and the number of incorrect submissions.
If you are interested in participating, watch for announcements on this page and elsewhere. In the meantime, we've provided some suggestions on how to prepare yourself for our local contest and the ACM contests.
Here are some problems that have been posed in other contests.
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