University of Maryland High School Programming Contest Rules and Information

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Contest Specifics
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   1.Each team will use ONE computer --- other computers in the
     labs must stay powered down. No computer equipment may be
     brought into the contest area, except for one USB mouse per team. 

   2.Teams are allowed to bring a reasonable number of computer 
     books and/or notebooks into the contest area for use during 
     the contest.  Teams are NOT ALLOWED to bring a disk, software,
     or machine-readable software into the contest area.

   3.Teams will not have their own printer. A network printer will
     be accessible. 

   4.No food or drink in the labs. There will be lunch before the
     contest, and refreshments supplied afterwords. 

   5.Any questions to the judges should be submitted online using the 
     Contest software.  All questions are submitted in private.
     Each question will be acknowledged, although the judges may refuse 
     to answer any question. The question and its answer may be 
     provided to all contestants if it seems relevant. 

   6.The only discussion permitted is within a team and with the
     contest staff.  Teams are not allowed to use cell 
     phones or other wireless devices to contact or talk 
     to anyone else during the contest.

   7.Teams are allowed to use calculators (hand-held or the built-in
     Windows calculator).  Teams are not allowed to use non-contest
     software on their computers.  Teams are not allowed to use 
     web browsers, telnet, ssh, ftp, or other networking software 
     to obtain help on their contest problems.

   8.You may work on the problems in any order, and submit them in
     any order. 

   9.Your programs must not do any file input or output. All contest
     input will come from stdin -- that is, the keyboard, and all
     output must go to stdout -- that is, to the console. 

  10.You need consider the efficiency of your algorithms to make sure
     it will take less than 1 minute of running time. For some of the
     problems there exist solutions that might work, but are so
     inefficient that they will not finish in the allowed time. 

  11.To receive credit for a problem solution, you must turn it in for
     judging, using the DOMJudge software. 

  12.The judges' decision is FINAL. 

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Scoring
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The score for each team is computed by taking the sum of the solve
times, plus a penalty of 10 minutes per incorrect attempt for all
solved problems. If a problem is not solved, the attempts do not give
any penalty to the score.

The scoring rules are similar to those used by ICPC.

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Eclipse Environment
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The Eclipse Java development environment is provided in 
/Applications/eclipse.  Each contest problem should appear as
a project in Eclipse, and includes the following files:

 - <problem>.java     Skeleton solution code

 - 01.in              Sample input data

 - 01.out             Expected output for sample input data

 - my.in              Placeholder for making up your own input data

 - TryTest.java       Will run your solution code for 01.in and compare 
                      its output to 01.out.  Repeat run for my.in.

The project files are in the Eclipse workspace directory.

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DOMJudge Contest Software
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The contest will use the DOMJudge software.  Once you believe your solution
code works (it should at least pass the sample input data), you may
use the DOMJudge software to submit your code to the judges.

The submission process should proceed as follows:

 1) Click the "Submit" button at the top right of the screen.

 2) Select the main java file (the one provided as part of
    the skeleton solution).

 3) Select the problem that you are submitting the solution to.

 4) Select Java as the language you are using.

 5) Use the "Submit" button to submit your contest problem solution.


Your submission should be judged quickly. The verdict will be shown in
a list sorted by the submission time. The page should auto-refresh.

You can click one "Request Clarification" to ask private questions
about the contest problems.

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Contest Web Page
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The contest web page provides a number of links:

Observers 
     This will show the current scores of all the teams. The 
     ScoreBoard will be updated every few minutes. The scores 
     hyperlink will be disabled during the last 30 minutes 
     of the contest. 

Contest Problems 
     Once the contest starts, this will provide a description 
     of all the contest problems identical to the paper version.

Contest Rules 
     Rules for the contest

Eclipse Info 
     Basic information on the Eclipse environment.

DOMjudge Guide 
     A link to the DOMjudge contest software.

Java API (17) - 
     A description of the Java 17 API, including class libraries.