1997 LSU Computer Science High School Programming Contest
Time, Date, Place, Itinerary
The contest was held March 8, 1997 at 143 Coates Hall on the LSU Campus.
| Start | End | Description |
| 8:00 a.m. |
9:00 a.m. |
Checkin and Setup in Coates Hall |
| 9:15 a.m. |
9:45 a.m. |
Contest Participants Meeting |
| 10:00 a.m. |
1:00 p.m. |
Contest |
| 1:00 p.m. |
2:30 p.m. |
Lunch and Break Down |
| 2:30 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. |
Awards Presentation |
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Team Size
Teams mayconsist of a maximum of 4 students. There is
a limit of two teams per school. Only the first 35 teams will be accepted
for participation.
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Languages
Languages allowed to be used include: BASIC, Pascal,
and C
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Divisions
There are two divisions for participants:
- Novice: first year CS students
- Veterans: second year CS students
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Awards
Awards will be presented for First, Second and Third
places in each division.
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Fees
There is a $25.00 participation fee for each team.
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Contest Description
Teams will be given a set of six problems of varying
difficulty to solve in the three hour time limit. The team that solves
the most problems in the shortest amount of time will be declared the winner.
Teams may enter in either of the divisions.
Problems will be judged on your machine, so there should
be no outside access to your hardware and little or no "virus"
trouble.
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Required Hardware/Software
Each team must supply their own disks (3 1/2" or
5 1/4"), CPU, monitor, disk drives, and optional printer.
Software should be limited to operating system and compiler.
We reserve the right to erase files from your hard disk if files are found
that may give your team an unfair advantage over others.
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Contacts
Any contest related questions can be directed to:
Kathy Traxler
504-388-2209
contest@contest.csc.lsu.edu
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Contest Rules for the LSU High School Programming
Contest are determined by the LSU Computer Science Department. The
contest director, Dr. S.S. Iyengar is solely responsible for interpretting
the rules and for ruling on any unforeseen situations.
- Multiple problems will be posed in English, solutions
to which must be submitted in one of the following: Pascal,
Basic, or C. Computers must not have anything on the hard drive accept
the OS and the compiler. All other files should be removed before
attending the contest.
- Contestants may bring any source materials intended for
human use such as books, manuals, program listings, and non-programmable
calculators. Contestants may not bring any machine-readable aids. All such
materials must be certified during system certification which immediately
precedes the contest.
- Teams MAY NOT accept help or advice on contest problems
from anyone except those authorized to give advice. No one other than judges
and contest officials will be authorized to give advice.
- Judges will not invite questions about the problems.
A contestant may submit a written claim of ambiguity or error in a problem
statement to the contest officials. If the contest officials determine
that an ambiguity or error exists in the statement, a clarification will
be issued to all contestants.
- Solutions to problems are submitted to team judges. The
team judge will accept or reject it based on predetermined test data. Accepted
runs will be sent to the contest judges on a judging ticket signed by one
of the team judges. Runs will be marked as follows:
- RT - run time exceeded
- IO - incorrect output
- OK - correct
- II - input incorrect
- TL - time limit exceeded
- Rejected runs will be marked and returned to the team.
Rejection reasons are not guaranteed to be complete nor sufficient to identify
the actual error. Normally, only the first observed error will be noted.
- While the contest is scheduled to last three hours, the
contest officials have the authority to shorten or lengthen the contest
in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should the contest duration be
altered, every attempt will be made to notify the contestants in a timely
and uniform manner.
- Immediately after judging each team must disassemble
and remove its certified system from the contest site. The system must
not be unplugged or disassembled during the contest.
- A team may be disqualified by the contest director for
any activity that jeopardizes the contest such as dislodging an extension
cord or distractive talking.
- Any attempt to discover a judges input will result in
a team's disqualification.
- Further explanation of judging codes:
- RT - runtime errors: program produces an error during
run-time
- II - input errors: acceptance of invalid input or failure
to accept valid input.
- IO - incorrect output: the results do not match what
is printed on the test data sheet (program does not work correctly) including
improper spelling, improper arrangement of items on the screen, dialogue
that does not match exactly that contained on the test data sheet.
- TL - time limit exceeded: if program does not finish
execution within a reasonable time (5 minutes). Execution must be interrupted.
- OK - correct execution and results.