Meet in room 104 Pearson Hall at 9:00 AM, Sat, Nov 6, 1999.
for breakfast (courtesy of IBM).
Sign in absolutely no later than 9:45.
The way will be clearly marked by signs "ACM ==>" from the corner of South College Ave and Delaware Ave. If you find a door to Pearson Hall locked, try other doors.
The building will be open.
Schedule, Saturday, November 6, 1999
9:00 - 10:00: Breakfast in room 104 Pearson Hall.
9:45 - 10:00: Orientation in room 104. (Receive t-shirts and free software)
10:00 - 10:45: Registration and practice on system in rooms 114,115.
10:45 - 11:00 Review of rules in room 104.
11:00 - 12:00 lunch in room 113.
(machines are unavailable during this period - account directories are cleared)
12:00 - 5:00 contest
5:00 - Dinner and announcement of winners around 6:00,
prize awarded to top team at the site.
Phone numbers
To reach the site on the day of the contest: 302-831-1413
For information before the contest contact David Saunders at: (302) 831-6238.
Hardware (one per team): Xterm or PC running X windows emulator to a Sun Sparc server.
Operating System: Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunOS 5.7 (Solaris)
Compilers: g++, gcc, java (JDK 1.1.7)
Debugger: dbx, gdb
Editors: vi, emacs, pine (pico)
Unix basics: ls, cp, lpr, rm, mv, etc.
Contest registration/submission system.
Forbidden:
Code construction tools (lex, yacc, scheme-to-c, etc.)
Calls to libraries that require explicit mention on the compile command line
(except that the judges will put "-lm" on the compile command line).
Allowed:
#include and use of automatically loaded standard library functions.
University of Delaware Contest Site