Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC)

2012 Contest

Registration is now open. Register Your Team.

University College Cork’s Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Chapter is hosting the third annual Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) this year on Saturday the 24^th of March 2012.

We would like to invite teams from Irish third level institutions to participate in the 2012 competition. There is no limit to the number of teams from a third level institute.
This year we are opening up the competition to an additional category for postgraduate students and faculty members. These teams will compete in a separate category to the undergrad students but will compete on the same set of problems.
The competition will test the participating teams on their combined knowledge of algorithms, programming and problem solving abilities.

Team members will have one computer between them to solve a set of 8 problems within 4 hours. Difficulty of the problems varies from simple (course work level) to challenging (ACM competition level). There will be no Internet access for the duration of the contest.

Information about the Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC)

Teams may choose to use Python, C, C++, Java and C# during the competition. If you would like to request an additional language, please contact the committee well in advance of the contest.

Undergraduate Teams

The IrlCPC competition is based on team of 3 students and a coach, all from the same third level institute. Each team member must be registered on an undergraduate degree, while the coach can be either a postgraduate student or faculty member.

Postgraduate and Faculty Teams

Entrants to this category should consist of 2 members made up of postgraduate and/or faculty members. Members of these teams may also act as coaches to an undergraduate team that is competing.

Registration

Team registration is open until Friday 24^th of February. Register Your Team

The registration requires for each team to provide the names of the members, and of course a team name. For undergraduate teams, you must also give the name of your coach.
A registration fee of €50 euro is also required for each team to cover the prize fund and the running costs of the competition. Registration will be payable online (for alternate arrangements please contact us).

Competition Day Program

The competition day was as follows: