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 (…)
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, (…)
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 (…)
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); (…)
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 (…)
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.