{ 2008 06 26 }

CCC 5

I’ve heard rumors that IAUM-CCC is going to be held again this summer, which will be the fifth such event. For the uninitiated, IAUM-CCC is an annual computer programming competition among Iranian (~)students, held in Azad University of Mashhad.
The first round will be online, supposedly before the end of Tir (around mid-July) and the final rounds are scheduled for the end of Mordad (around mid-August.)

Fortunately for my schoolmates and friends over there in Mashhad, I don’t think I have enough time and energy to contribute in any major way this year. This is fortunate because the weakest points in past years’ contests were my contributions (mostly in the form of incomprehensible and/or wrong problem statements and flawed solutions.) I will however try to make it there as a judge, if the executive committee would want me.

Now, to whomever who reads this blog (all the 2-3 people) I invite you and your friends to participate (if you are an Iranian-resident and are or have recently been a student.) More importantly, if you think you can manage it, I invite you (implore would be a better word) to help us devise the problems for the event. Some items that might be of interest.

  • We need more than 30 problems for the tournament.
  • If you contribute any problems and they are accepted for the CCC, you won’t be able to qualify for or participate in the on-site rounds. You can take part in the online contests, though.
  • If any of your problems are included in the CCC, you will be an Honorary Judge and will receive the certificate stating that. Depending on the number of contributors, you may be invited to help us as a judge in the on-site rounds.
  • If you contribute any problems to the CCC, we ask you to consider yourself bound by your conscience not to discuss or share your contributions with anyone other than the other CCC judges.
  • You are free to use problems from existing sources as “inspiration” for the ones you want to contribute to the CCC, but verbatim copying is unacceptable. You should share the source of your inspiration with us anyway.
  • The printed problem sets during the contest and the published material on the website will carry the name of the problem setter, unless she requests otherwise.
  • The problems should be designed in the spirit of ACM/ICPC problems, with the same conventions.
  • The difficulty range of the problems will be wide, from easiest of programming tasks to difficult ICPC-grade, but the problems in the CCC are on the easy side of the scales, such that our most difficult problems can be considered around the same difficulty level as medium or medium-hard problems in the ICPC world finals.
  • It would be better if the problem designers supply their own solution and even I/O data if they can, but even if you don’t want to (or don’t have the time to) do so, give us your idea or problem statement.
  • Anyone interested should contact me through my email address, which is the single letter y at the domain name of this site: yaserzt.com.

As always, we hope to see all of you in Mashhad (or at least during the online contest.)

P.S. If anyone has more concrete information regarding CCC 5, please let me know! ;)

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Posted by yzt on Thursday, June 26th, 2008, at 11:57:10 (\1214506630\PDT\C-0700), and filed under Uncategorized.

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