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- From: babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Bobby Abraham)
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- Subject: 1st Southern African Computer Programming Competition
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:57:02 GMT
- Organization: Dept. Computer Science, UNP
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- This is an updated preliminary announcement for the upcoming computer
- programming competition on the 18 March 1993. This competition is
- organised by the Computer Science Department, University of Natal in
- Pietermaritzburg.
-
- Who may Enter?
-
- Teams from any Southern African university composed of four students,
- provided that each team may contain at most one student studying at higher
- than Honours level. We expect most teams to consist of 3rd year and honours
- students. It is also a requirement that each team has internet access as
- questions are sent and solutions received via email.
-
- The Nature of the Competition.
-
- It is hoped that this competition will attract computer science and
- business computing students. For this reason there is no restriction
- on the tools used during the competition. For assesment purposes all
- solutions will be required to be executable files for a PC running
- MSDOS. Should some sort of environment be required for running
- submitted programs, contact the organisers as we may be prepared to
- make some sort of arrangement. The questions will cover a wide area
- with some favouring business computer science students and others
- favouring the computer science students. It is not expected that all
- questions will be answered during the allocated six hours.
-
- As soon as a team has solved any of the questions, they will submit
- their solution either via email or ftp. Points will be awarded for
- each solution according to the time of submission. Programs will be
- required to match specification exactly. Any program which does not
- will not count. It will start at 16h00 and no solution will be
- accepted after 22h00.
-
- The SIGCSE bulletin, vol 24 No. 2 1992 contains the questions asked
- during the 1991 ACM Scholastic Programming Contest Finals.
- Participants can expect questions of a similar standard.
-
- What can one win?
-
- Prizes will not be substantial. We are hoping to be able to
- offer a R400 prize to the winning team as an incentive. However,
- we believe that going down in history as participants (let alone
- winners) of the first ever CompComp competition should be enough
- to get the adrenaline pumping and those programming brains into
- gear!
-
- How does one enter?
-
- It is required that each participating university nominate a staff
- member to act as coordinator. Multiple teams may be entered. Entry
- forms or requests for further information can be obtained from the
- following email address.
-
- compcomp@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
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- Bobby Abraham
- Dept. of Computer Science
- University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
- email - babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
- abraham@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za
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