Auckland Site Page

The next NZ Programming Contest is Saturday August 6th, 2011.

For general information about the NZ Programming Contest see the official website maintained by NZ contest director Phil Robbins.
We will use pc^2 for problem submissions.

Local site information (at the University of Auckland) follows:

Languages: C++/C#/VB (Visual Studio 2010), Java 1.6.0, Python 2.7, and other software.

OS/Hardware: Windows 7 machines, flat panel displays.

A draft timetable of the contest is given below.

10:30am Briefing (required attendance) in Seminar Room 279 (building 303 via carpark 40 bridge)
11am - noon Practice session---to get used to the equipment and the method of result submission
noon - 1pm Everyone thrown out of the lab so we can get it cleared for the contest
1pm - 6pm The actual contest in First Floor Tutorial Laboratory (FTL)
6pm - 7pm Dinner pizza/food
7pm With luck the country wide provisional results

If you need to pay your registration fee you can send check (made out to Dept CompSci; U Auckland) or cash to:

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Auckland
c/o Radu Nicolescu <r.nicolescu@auckland.ac.nz>(site director)
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
(or bring in person to Room 579, Building 303)


Michael Dinneen has a few links to past problems, past results and selected solutions.