ACM/ICPC is a world-wide annual programming contest over thirty years. As in other competitions, the result of a team largely depends on how they are trained. Methods and guidelines introduced in this article are extracted from various successful teams, including regional champions and world finals medalists. The long-term training is divided into three aspects. Principles and practical suggest...

The annual ICFP Programming Contest has become one of the premiere programming competitions in the world. The 9 incarnation of the contest, “The Cult of the Bound Variable,” was held in July 2006 and organized by the Principles of Programming group at Carnegie Mellon University. This report details the contest tasks, the technology used to produce the contest, and the contest results. Several t...

A contest is a game where several players compete for winning prizes by expending costly efforts. A contest success function determines the probability of winning or losing the contest as a function of these efforts. We assume that the outcome of a contest is an ordered partition of the set of players (a ranking) and a contest success function assigns a probability to each possible outcome. We ...

The annual ICFP Programming Contest has become one of the premiere programming competitions in the world. The 9 incarnation of the contest, “The Cult of the Bound Variable,” was held in July 2006 and organized by the Principles of Programming group at Carnegie Mellon University. This report details the contest tasks, the technology used to produce the contest, and the contest results. Several t...