Art of Programming Contest

by Ahmed Shamsul Arefin

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for an algorithm course focusing on programming as well as a programming course focusing on algorithms. The book is specially designed to train students to participate in competitions, especially the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

The book covers several important topics related to the development of programming skills such as, fundamental concepts of contest, game plan for a contest, essential data structures for contest, input/output techniques, brute force method, mathematics, sorting, searching, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, graphs, computational geometry, Valladolid Online Judge problem category, selected ACM programming problems, common codes/routines for programming, Standard Template Library (STL), PC2 contest administration and team guide. The book also lists some important websites/books for ACM/ICPC Programmers.

Genres: Computer Science

247 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Aayush Shrivastava · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old but really a gold. For people who are passionate about programming and programming contest. Yet some websites are outdated but recommendation of material and the code snippets for algorithms still work to perfections. Lot of good problems codes being included as well.