Meeting Summary – 10/3/11
by MG Chi on October 3, 2011
Today, we went over the USACO competition. You can register for USACO at contest.usaco.org, and you can find lots of helpful practice problems at train.usaco.org.
We also gave the second problem of the week, which can be found in the meeting slides. Even if you did not do last week’s, there are still plenty of weeks to catch up.
Meeting Summary – 9/26/11
by MG Chi on September 26, 2011
The officer team presented the PotW (Problem of the Week) system.
Everyone should participate in order to win cool prizes at the end of
this semester!
Today’s meeting slides that include this week’s PotW can be found here.
Meeting Summary – 9/19/11
by MG Chi on September 19, 2011
Today was the first meeting of the 2011-2012 school year. We introduced the officer team, discussed what we do throughout the year, introduced various contests, and explained why you should join.
The meeting slides are posted here, and remember that you can still sign up at http://bit.ly/lynbrookcs1112.
Have a great week coding!
Meeting Summary – 5/21/11
by Jack Li on May 24, 2011
Monday’s meeting, in which Deniz gave a lecture on boolean algebra, was the last CS Club meeting of the school year. Have a great summer, and see you next year!
Meeting Summary – 5/16/11
by Jack Li on May 16, 2011
Today Karthik gave a lecture on calculating palindromic primes.
Next week will be the last meeting of the year, so be sure not to miss it!
Meeting Summary – 5/2/2011
by Jack Li on May 2, 2011
At today’s meeting Virup gave an illustrated lecture on the flood fill algorithm.
A couple reminders: Today is the last day to take the US Open, so if you have not taken it yet but plan to, do it soon! Also, as we have repeated many times, turn in your membership dues if you have not done so!
Meeting Summary – 4/25/11
by Jack Li on April 25, 2011
In today’s meeting Johnny gave a lecture on computer graphics.
If you have yet to turn in your membership dues, please remember to bring your dues to the next meeting! We know who hasn’t paid yet, and you know who you are as well!
Also, the USACO US Open will be taking place this coming weekend, from April 28 to May 2. Be sure not to miss it!
Meeting Summary – 4/11/11
by Jack Li on April 11, 2011
Today we continued our lecture on regular expressions, covering several example applications of regular expressions as well as some other regular expression concepts.
Also, we returned the results for the ACSL of last week. Let the officers know if you want to see your result but were not at the meeting today.
If you still have not turned in your membership dues, please do so ASAP! The dues are still the same as they always have been ($15, cash or check to Lynbrook ASB – Computer Science).
As a clarification, these dues apply regardless of whether or not you took the ACSL.
Meeting Summary – 3/28/11
by Jack Li on March 28, 2011
Today Karthik gave a lecture on regular expressions, which have a variety of applications, both on CS contests and elsewhere.
If you have not turned in your membership dues yet, please do so ASAP! As it always has been, the dues are $15 in either cash or check payable to Lynbrook ASB – Computer Science.
We did not mention it at this meeting, but the Harker Programming Invitational took place the Saturday before last. Lynbrook as a school did very well, taking first, third, and fourth place! Detailed results for each team are posted at http://contest.frankli.org/archive/hpi2011/.
Meeting Summary – 3/14/11
by Jack Li on March 14, 2011
Happy π day! Today we went over problems from last Monday’s written portion of the ACSL, covering topics such as graph theory and boolean algebra.
Note that today is the last day to take the March USACO, so if you are planning on taking it but have not done so yet, make sure you do so soon!
Also, if you still have not turned in your membership dues ($15, cash or check payable to Lynbrook ASB – Computer Science), please remember to do so ASAP (where “ASAP” means “next meeting”).