University of Alberta
2006 ACPC Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest

October 14, 2006, 11:00-16:00


Mission

The Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) provides college students from Alberta with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for industry and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence.

ACPC has been inspired by ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and can be seen as its unoffical chapter.


Past: ACPC 2003 2004 2005
Prizes funded by            

1st team: $1,500    2nd team: $750    3rd team: $300

   provides google blue t-shirts for participants and coaches. Thanks!


The top three teams winning iCore prizes:

I     Uof Alberta         Kevin Waugh       Steven Soneff       Zac Friggstad   

II     U of Calgary       Sean McIntyre    John Zhang    Darko Aleksic   

III     U of Lethbridge       Thomas Xiong       Curtis Van Osch       Brett Peake  

Congratulations!


The third edition of ACPC attracted 24 teams: 4 from University of Calgary, 6 from University of Lethbridge and 3 from University of Alberta. The teams from outside Alberta and some teams from Alberta (altogether 11 teams) participated as guests and were not eligible to win prizes.

Although it was a team competition, it has been won by a guest team consisting of Richard Peng, a freshman from Waterloo, playing solo.


Results

Problems



Rules regarding team composition, conduct of the contest, and scoring rules.

At UofA the contest will be conducted in CSC 219.



P. Rudnicki piotr@cs.ualberta.ca