NCPC (Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest) will be held on Saturday and you will be able to participate in an online contest with the same problem set. The online contest will start at 11:00 and end 16:00 CEST on Saturday, October 10.

The contest will be held at open.kattis.com and you can participate in the warm-up contest in the mean time.

We organize a programming contest at KTH in Stockholm next Sunday, April 26, 11:00 “– 15:00 CEST.

You can solve some warm-up problems from last year to make yourself familiar with the contest system. The allowed languages are C/C++, Java, Python, C# and Go, but Python might be too slow for some problems.

The online contest will appear later at the contest page on Kattis.

Btw, the contest also has an on-site competition happening at KTH in Stockholm, but only for university and high school students.

I hope you will have fun!

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There will also be an online contest. The contest starts on Sunday 2014-11-30 at 11:00 AM CET and lasts for 5 hours.

NCPC (Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest) and UKIEPC (UK and Ireland Programming Contest) will be held on Saturday and you will be able to participate in an online contest with the same problem set. The online contest will start at 11:00 and end 16:00 CEST on Saturday, October 4.

The contest will be held at open.kattis.com and you can participate in the warm-up contest in the mean time.

We organize a programming contest at KTH in Stockholm next Sunday, April 13, 11:00 – 15:00 CEST.

Right now you can create a Kattis account and solve some warm up problems from last year. The problems in the real contest will be of similar character and difficulty as last year. We will reveal the URL of the contest system before the contest. The allowed languages are C/C++, Java, Python, C# and Go, but Python might be too slow for some problems.

For people going to the World Finals this is a great opportunity to try out the Kattis contest system.

Btw, the contest also has an on-site competition happening at KTH in Stockholm, but only for university and high school students.

I hope you will have fun!

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NCPC (Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest) and UKIEPC (UK and Ireland Programming Contest) will be held next week and you will be able to participate in an online contest with the same problem set. The online contest will start at 11:30 and end 16:30 CEST on Saturday, October 5.

The contest will be held at www.kattis.com. You can register an account already now and start solving some old problems.

We organize a programming contest at KTH in Stockholm next Sunday, April 21, 11:00 — 15:00 CEST. You can register now for the online contest and solve some warm-up problems from the last year's contest. The problems in the real contest will be of similar character and difficulty, they were done by almost the same people after all. The allowed languages are C/C++, Java, Python, C# and Go, but Python might be too slow for some problems.

For people going to the World Finals this is a great opportunity to try out the Kattis contest system.

Btw, the contest also has an on-site competition happening at KTH in Stockholm, but only for university and high school students.

I hope you will have fun!

Over the last year I have been writing a Guide to Programming Contests, which is supposed to contain most of the information needed by a successful competition programmer. A possible subtitle could be "Everything you need to know to become a better competition programmer (except algorithms)", because I will not write about algorithms. I decided to present it to you, even though it's not finished.

Here is a link to the main page.

So far, I wrote most material in the section How to get better?, where you can find a full training program for improving your programming skills.

There is a lot of content missing, but I decided to already show it to you to get some feedback. I'll post updates in this thread when I write a new section or chapter.

Please tell me what you think is missing and what you don't like! However, my goal is not to write about algorithms, there are already plenty of books and courses that do this.

A while ago, I have written about ACM ICPC World Finals on my blog. I was a member of KTH Stockholm team and the competition was really exciting, especially in the end. Read more.