South Central USA Regional Programming Contest

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who will provide the computers for the contest?
2. What will the computers be?
3. What software will be available?
4. Can I get the software before the contest?
5. What may the teams bring?
6. When can we use the computers before the contest?
7. What is the registration process?
8. Who do we make out the check or money order for the contest fee?
9. How is the Hotel/Accomodations being handled? By whom? Are there special rates?
10. How do I install VAC v4.0 on Windows 2000?
11. How will the problems be judged?

1) Who will provide the computers for the contest?

LSU will provide all the computer systems that will be used by competitors and judges during the contest. The contest will be held in public lab facilities that are normally available to all LSU students (except during special events like this).

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2) What will the computers be?

All systems will be Pentiums running at 500 MHz or faster. All systems will have at least 256 MB of memory and 17" monitors. All systems will run Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000.

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3) What software will be available?

During the contest, only the approved languages (IBM Visual Age C/C++, IBM Java, and Borland Delphi) will be available as programming languages (Microsoft Visual C/C++, and GNU C/C++ will NOT be available). The Internet will NOT be accessible. If anyone has any software requests (such as favorite editors), please send e-mail to contest@contest.csc.lsu.edu. As new items are defined as available, I will list them here.

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4) Can I get the software before the contest?

Yes - after a team pays its fees, the software will be mailed to the team.

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5) What may the teams bring?

Teams may bring in any reference materials they desire as long as:

• Materials can not be machine readable
• Materials may not be used to calculate (books of tables are okay)
• Materials may not produce irritation to other teams or disrupt the competition in any way

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6) When can we use the computers before the contest?

The schedule now has the Coates Computer Lab reserver Friday from 4:30 PM until 10:00 PM (there will be a couple of other things during that time to tear you away). You will also have the practice contest Saturday morning.

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7) What is the registration process?

• Your coach will visit South Central Region Web Site and register you. The coach will need to register the school and then add the team. This will put the team in a "pending" state.
• When the coach sends the payment in, the team will be moved to an "accepted" state.
• When you arrive at LSU, go to the registration table. Here you will get your Registration Packets that will include copies of the rules, t-shirts, banquet tickets and all kinds of other stuff.

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8) Who do we make out the check or money order for the contest fee?

Please make all checks payable to CSC Programming Contest. This is very important! You should send your check or money order to the following address:

LSU Computer Science Department
ACM Regional Programming Contest
289 Coates Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

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9) How is the Hotel/Accomodations being handled? By whom? Are there special rates?

See the Local Information Page for details.

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10) How do I install VAC v4.0 on Windows 2000?

1. Visit http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document0963?OpenDocument&mast=3&p=1&BCT=5&Footer=1. Follow the instructions on that page (accept all defaults for the install, say "Yes" to the proxy question and restart the machine).

   This step allows you to force an install of VAC v4.0

2. Visit http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/vacpp/service/csd.html and download the "Download (53546K)" in the "Fixpak 2 for VisualAge C++ Professional for Windows v4.0" section at the top of the page.

   This Fix Pack will allow you to actually run the VAC v4.0 IDE on Windows 2000.

3. Unzip and install the Fix Pack 2 file (run the setup.exe from the .zip file).

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11) How will the problems be judged?

When a team "Test"'s a file using the PC² client or when a judge receives a submission and is going to judge it, the following two scripts get run. The first one sets things up and then calls the second one to do the actual compilation. The actual output from the compilation will be judged visually by a human judge, comparing a team's output with sample output.

runscr.bat

@echo off
rem created by pc2 v7 Fri Oct 20 17:32:13 CDT 2000
rem 1: judge scrip to run
rem 2: source file (no path) with extension
rem 3: source file (no path) without extension
rem 4: language short name
rem 5: problem number
echo
echo Version 3 of Run Script
echo Changing to execute directory
cd execute
echo Copying judging script: %1
if exist c:\temp\%1 erase c:\temp\%1
copy %1 c:\temp
echo Copying source file: %2
if exist c:\temp\%2 erase c:\temp\%2
copy %2 c:\temp
echo Copying input file for problem %5
if %5. == 1. copy y:\i1.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 2. copy y:\i2.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 3. copy y:\i3.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 4. copy y:\i4.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 5. copy y:\i5.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 6. copy y:\i6.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 7. copy y:\i7.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 8. copy y:\i8.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 9. copy y:\i9.inp c:\temp\input.txt
if %5. == 10. copy y:\i10.inp c:\temp\input.txt
echo Changing to C:\temp
c:
cd \temp
echo Calling judging script
call %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
echo
echo End of Run Script
pause
exit

judge5.bat

@echo off
rem
rem Purpose: used as juding script (compile and execute) for pc2v7 
rem Environment:  Windows '95, '98, 'NT
rem Author:  pc2@ecs.csus.edu  
rem Revised: Sept 2, 2000
rem Revised: BDRH, IWT
rem 
rem Parameters:
rem 1:  name of file with extension (no path)
rem 2:  name of file with no extension
rem 3:  language/compiler name 
rem 
rem Examples:
rem v7judge hello.java hello java
rem v7judge hello.c hello cpp
c:
cd \temp
echo This is version 5 of the judging script
pause
if %3. == java. goto :dojava
if %3. == cpp. goto :docpp
if %3. == c. goto :docpp
if %3. == delphi. goto :dodelphi
rem Unsupported languages below
rem if %3. == vaj. goto :dovaj
rem if %3. == pascal. goto :dopas
rem if %3. == tcpp. goto :dotcpp
rem if %3. == mvc. goto :domvc

echo
echo Error - Unknown/Unsupported language %3
echo
echo Usage: v7judge.bat name.ext name lang
echo
echo Example: v7judge hello.java hello java
echo
goto :End

rem ******************************************************
rem       Java
rem ******************************************************

:dojava

set CLASSPATH=.;c:\java\lib;%CLASSPATH%
PATH=c:\java\bin;%PATH%

echo Compiling Java

javac %1

echo Executing program %2

java %2  > output.txt

echo program done - starting notepad with java output...

rem notepad output.txt path\%2.out
notepad output.txt 
Goto :End

rem ******************************************************
rem IBM's VisualAge C++ 
rem ******************************************************

:docpp

rem echo target is a.exe

call C:\IBMCPPW40\BIN\setenv.BAT
path=C:\IBMCPPW40\BIN;%path%

rem option  link(subsystem, "console")
rem {
rem    target "Untitled.exe"
rem    {
rem      source "..\\tmp\\samps\\HELLO.CPP"
rem    }
rem }

echo option link(subsystem, "console")  > makefile.icc
echo { >> makefile.icc
echo target "a.exe" >> makefile.icc
echo { >> makefile.icc
echo source "%1" >> makefile.icc
echo } >> makefile.icc
echo } >> makefile.icc 

echo Compiling %1 as C or C++
vacbld -noc makefile.icc
erase makefile.icc

echo Executing program...
a.exe  > output.txt
echo program done - starting notepad with C / C++ output...
notepad output.txt
goto End:

rem **************************************
rem Delphi 4 
rem **************************************

:dodelphi

rem hello.dpr hello delphi

PATH=%PATH%;"c:\Program Files\BORLAND\Delphi4\BIN"
rem PATH=%PATH%;"c:\Program Files\BORLAND\Delphi4\BIN"

echo Compiling %1 as Pascal
DCC32 %1

echo Executing program: %2
%2  > output.txt

echo program done - starting notepad...
notepad output.txt
goto End

rem **************************************
rem    UNUSED LANGUAGES
rem **************************************

rem **************************************
rem Java using package named: solution
rem     dovaj
rem **************************************

:dovaj

set CLASSPATH=.;c:\java\lib;%CLASSPATH%
PATH=c:\java\bin;%PATH%

echo Creating and clearing solution directory

mkdir solution 2> null

move *.java solution

echo Compiling Java

javac solution\%1

echo Executing program solution.%2

java solution.%2  > output.

echo program done - starting notepad...

notepad output.
Goto :End

rem **************************************
rem  Turbo Pascal
rem **************************************

:dopas

echo Compiling Pascal
rem C:\tp\bin\tpc.exe %1
rem c:\turbo\turbo7/tpc.exe %1
tpc.exe %1

echo Executing program
%2.exe  > output. C:\IBMCPPW40\BIN\setenv.BAT C:\IBMCPPW40\BIN\setenv.BA C:\IBMCPPW40\BIN\setenv.BAT
T



echo program done - starting notepad...
notepad output.
Goto :End

rem **************************************
rem  Turbo C++
rem **************************************

:dotcpp

echo Compiling %1 as C or C++
path=%path%;c:\bc5\bin;
path=c:\bc5\bin;%path%;
bcc32 -IC:\BC5\INCLUDE -LC:\BC5\LIB %1 
echo Executing program
%2.exe  > output.
echo program done - starting notepad...
notepad output.
goto End:

rem **************************************
rem Microsoft Visual C++
rem **************************************

:domvc

echo Compiling Microsoft Visual C++

if exist c:\progra~1\micros~1\nul Path=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VB98;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VC98\bin;%PATH%
if exist c:\progra~1\micros~2\nul Path=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VB98;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VC98\bin;%PATH%

if exist C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VC98\nul set MSVCDir=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VC98
if exist C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VC98\nul set MSVCDir=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VC98
set PATH=%MSDevDir%\BIN;%MSVCDir%\BIN;%VSCommonDir%\TOOLS\%VcOsDir%;%VSCommonDir%\TOOLS;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%MSVCDir%\ATL\INCLUDE;%MSVCDir%\INCLUDE;%MSVCDir%\MFC\INCLUDE;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%MSVCDir%\LIB;%MSVCDir%\MFC\LIB;%LIB%

cl %1
%2.exe  > output.
notepad output.
goto End


rem **************************************
rem    END of batch file
rem **************************************

:End
echo End of judging script run...
pause
rem end of script

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