TopCoder Marathon Match starts this week!

by Brandon Liu on October 29, 2008

The TopCoder Marathon Match is a one-week long contest. If you’re looking for a competition that is more time-flexible and gives more time, then you should definitely give this a try! The contest started today, Wednesday October 29th, and will (…)

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Meeting Slides 10/27/08

by Brandon Liu on October 27, 2008

The slides for the meeting can be found here. Here’s a brief summary of the meeting: ACSL Sample problems Upcoming TopCoder Competitions Club dues

Meeting Slides 10/20/08

by Brandon Liu on October 20, 2008

Slides for today’s meeting can be found here. Summary of meeting: Collected Dues New Officers: Stephen Li and David Li Presented sample problem w/ Solution (USACO Bronze level) Presented solution to costgrid

10/17/08 – Some Reminders for the Weekend

by Brandon Liu on October 17, 2008

Hi everyone, There are a few things we’d like to remind everyone about before the weekend. Dues: We will be collecting dues of $15 during our next meeting, on Monday October 20th.  The money will go towards registration for ACSL, (…)

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Traveling on a Grid

by David Liu on October 6, 2008

You’re traveling from the top-left corner of a grid (0,0) to the bottom-right cell of a NxM grid. N and M are between 0 and 250. Entering each cell has a cost. At each step, you can only move down (…)

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Fibonacci – Solutions

by David Liu on October 6, 2008

The recursive implementation is based directly on the mathematical definition of the Fibonacci function. // Naive, recursive implementation (slow!) public int fib(int n) { if (n <= 0) return 0; if (n == 1) return 1; return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2); (…)

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Meeting Slides 10/6/08

by Brandon Liu on October 6, 2008

We had our second meeting of the year on October 6th.  We discussed the following topics: Dues Competitions: USACO, ACSL, TopCoder Solution to Fibonacci problem New Challenge problem for next week. problem statement can be found here Here are the (…)

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USACO and ACSL Schedules are up!

by Ritik Malhotra on October 4, 2008

The USACO and ACSL schedules for 2008-2009 are finally up! You can check them out by visiting the links on top of the site.