Just came back from Sheridan College for the first day of 2005 ACM East Central North America Regional Programming Contest. The events started from 5pm today.
We have two teams from McMaster University, and I was with Yinghai and Eugene as McMaster A . The name of another team is McMonkey, consisting of William, Shiqi and Jeff. Note that Shiqi has just won the first place of International Conference on Functional Programming Contest, with another student in the Department of Computing and Software.
After a brief introduction to PC Square, a software that collects codes from contestants and display the result from judge, we were led to the practice session. It was aimed at making contestants more familiar with the contest environment. In the practice contest, we were actually given three problems. It is really helpful to make as many mistakes as possible, as we want to get the feedback from PC Square and the judge, to find out different possible problems which potentially will occur in the real contest tomorrow.