International Collegiate Programming Contest: Difference between revisions

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==Contest rules==

ACPC is a team competition. Each team consists of 3three students. Participiants must be university students, who have had less than 5five years of university education before the contest. Students who have previously competed in 2twi World Finals or 4four regional competitions are ineligible to compete again.

During contest, the teams are given about 8 programming problems and 5 hours of time. They must submit solutions as programs in [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]], [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]] or [[Java programming language|Java]]. Programs are then run on test data. If a program fails to give a correct answer, the team is notified about that and they can submit another program.

The winner is the team which correctly solves most problems. If several teams solve an equal number of problems, the placement of teams is determined by the time when they submitted the correct solutions.

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If, before submitting the correct solution, the team has submitted incorrect solution to the same problem, it receives a 20 minute penalty for each incorrect solution attempt.

Compared to other programming contests (for example, [[International Informatics Olympiad]], ACPC is characterized by a large number of problems (8 problems in just 5 hours). Another feature is that each team can use only one computer, although teams hashave 3three students. This makes the time pressure even greater. A goodGood teamwork and ability to withstand pressure is needed to win.

==Regionals and World Finals==