CCC contests 2009

[mono-1-rulz]

Hey guys,
i am thinking abt writing the CCC waterloo contest in Feb, 2009 . I am in Grd-11 with somewhat programing experience in Java. How can i prepare for this contest? i hv looked at the past contests and can only manage to solve the first two problems......the rest are really tough!!!
anyone have any advice as to what topics i should cover??

[Tony]

Participate in DWITE. You are probably late for Round 2, but make sure to sign up and register for Rounds 3/4/5 -- there's one every month.

Meanwhile you can checkout this article by Paul Butler.

[A.J]

I'll advice u to continue looking at the CCC past contests and see if u can solve them. If u can't look at the solution and see what algorithm was used in solving them...

Tony wrote:

Participate in DWITE. You are probably late for Round 2, but make sure to sign up and register for Rounds 3/4/5 -- there's one every month.

Meanwhile you can checkout this article by Paul Butler.

Tony is right. Although DWITE is more of an ECOO practice.... (as it is done in teams)

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

mono-1-rulz @ Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:56 am wrote:

anyone have any advice as to what topics i should cover??

Recursion and memoization are useful in CCC. They accomplish the same things as Dynamic Programming. There is likely one easy recursion that you can do without memoization. As with all of programming, break the problems down into parts.

[Tony]

A.J @ Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:12 am wrote:

(as it is done in teams)

Except that a lot of the top teams are a team of one.

[saltpro15]

Doesn't CCC have to be written in either Perl or C++?

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

saltpro15 @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:38 pm wrote:

Doesn't CCC have to be written in either Perl or C++?

They take most iterative and object oriented programming languages. Likely no functional or logic programming allowed though. Safe bets are C, C++, Pascal and Java.