University Programming Contest

Contest Rules:

• The contest lasts for five hours.
• Contestants are not allowed to leave before one hour of the beginning of the contest.
• The contest consists of 8-12 programming problems.
• Contestants are allowed to carry books and paper documents to the contest. This includes programming references, dictionaries, printed handouts and handwritten papers.

• All types of electronic devices are not permitted (ebooks, mobile phones, flash drives,…).

• Internet access is not provided and not allowed.

• No contestant should try to communicate with any other contestant.

• Any assistance (or issue) should be requested from (or reported to) a contest  supervisor.
  

• Winners are ranked based on:

  a. The number of correctly solved problems (the higher wins),

  b. Then, the total submissions time (the lower wins).
  

• All problems have equal weights.

• The total submissions time is counted for solved problems only.

• Wrong submissions are penalized by 20 minutes added to the submission time of the problem.
  

Contest Environment:

• Supported programming languages are C++, Python and Java.
• Available IDE's are: CODE:BLOCKS, Visual studio, Pycharm and Eclipse.
• All solutions should read input from standard input and send output to standard output (monitor). NO FILE INPUT/OUTPUT REQUIRED.
• The system allows the contestants to communicate with the judges for inquiries and clarifications.