I'm assuming our boardwide will be at Niagara College again. (DSBN). Feel free to say hi to me, just look for the tallest white kid there
Computer Science Canada ECOO 2010 Gag order |
| Author: | McKenzie [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | ECOO 2010 Gag order |
It's that time of year again. This year I know a board that is writing on April 9th. Don't talk about the contest at all until the 10th. Not even, "wow, question one was really easy", or "we got a score of 451" |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
I'm doing it on the first. Unfortunately, this year my board is doing it online, so there isn't going to be a gathering of aspiring programmers or free pizza. |
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| Author: | Shah-Cuber [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ECOO 2010 Gag order |
DWITE, tomorrow. ECOO, Saturday (TDSB). U of T Showcase, April 10th. |
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| Author: | andrew. [ Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Shah-Cuber @ Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:53 pm wrote: ECOO, Saturday (TDSB) Same for me. This is our first time though in a contest, and I think we're going to fail miserably. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
I'm assuming our boardwide will be at Niagara College again. (DSBN). Feel free to say hi to me, just look for the tallest white kid there |
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| Author: | A.J [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
well, we automatically make the regionals...though I doubt we have any competition in our board... |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
My teacher is pretty confident that my team will make regionals, though I dunno if that's because he thinks we're good or the other teams suck. |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Can't it be both?  |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
we made regionals last year, so we should be able to do it again. we'll probably write regionals at Western University again. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
ok, my teacher has confirmed that we write this thursday at Niagara College (Maid of the Mist campus). See some of you at regionals/finals hopefully! |
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| Author: | A.J [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Mr,McKenzie, mind if you can email me the boardwide contest? Also, when will the registration for the regionals commence? |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Sure I'll e-mail them to you. Registration will open as soon as I get FTP access. The ECOO office moved the server on me and despite frequent e-mails, have yet to give me access. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Haha, that's unfortunate. Thanks Mr.McKenzie. |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Registration is open now. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Thanks. Also, if you could send me the boardwide contest before next Thursday, then that would be great (as I was planning on holding a practice on Friday). |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Well, ECOO regional for our contest set are over. Time for discussion? Definitely. I spent the entire 3 hours working on the cipher. Pseudo-coded for the first hour, typed it in in 15 minutes, fixed up syntax and small errors in 5 minutes, got excited when it worked *almost* perfectly, then spent the rest of the contest trying to figure out what was wrong with my program when, with 10 minutes left in the contest I realized I was using the xor operator wrong and proceeded to write my own xor function which I did not complete in time. Good thing my other team members managed to finish their question. |
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| Author: | bbi5291 [ Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ECOO 2010 Gag order |
One region doesn't write until next Saturday! |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
bbi5291, they have a different set of problems, so it's okay to discuss the London contest. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
no it isn't. the central region write the same contest next week, with same questions. |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Hun, I was misinformed then. |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
It is a different set of problems. For the boardwide we don't worry too much because cheating just means your board will send a weaker team. For regionals though we try a little harder to ensure no cheating. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Ah, my bad. I was under the impression that the Central and Western Region got the same problems, whereas the Eastern region got different ones, because in the 'Past Contests' web page Central and Western had the same problem set. |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Normally it is Eastern that has a problem with the date, this time it was central. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Oh, that makes sense. Also, Mr.McKenzie, is it possible for you to add the 2009 problems to the 'Past Contest' web page? As we would like to take a look at last year's questions as practice (as I seem to have misplaced the actual copy from last year). |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
so, who will be at ECOO provincials this saturday? I'll be on the E.L. Crossley Team. |
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| Author: | bbi5291 [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
saltpro15 @ Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:08 pm wrote: so, who will be at ECOO provincials this saturday? I'll be on the E.L. Crossley Team. I will, but Jacob won't (some music commitment). This means we'll be using Linux/g++/sensible keyboard... watch out! |
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| Author: | A.J [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
I will, and being our team's last year (as we are all grade 12's), we will be trying our best. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
everybody bring rubik's cubes ( to be extra nerdy) and tissues (for when Brian beats us all) |
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| Author: | A.J [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
Well, I am bringing my GameBoy Color with Pokemon on it (Red, Blue, Yellow and Gold versions, for those of you who want to know). Also, Mr.McKenzie, when will the teams who advanced to the Finals be posted on the 'Finals' webpage? I am curious to find out where the other schools are from. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:ECOO 2010 Gag order |
looks like the final teams are posted. Mr. McKenzie, it's not a big deal, but we are actually E.L. Crossley* from the District School Board Of Niagara probably my fault for writing down our info, my handwriting's not the best |
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