CS3233 - Competitive Programming
Introduction
This module aims to prepare students in competitive problem solving.
It will benefit NUS students who want to compete in ACM ICPC, invited high school students who want to compete in IOI (not just for NOI), and NUS students in general who aspire to excel in technical interviews of top IT companies.
It covers techniques for attacking and solving challenging* computational problems. Fundamental algorithmic solving techniques covered include complete search, divide/reduce/transform and conquer, greedy, dynamic programming, etc. Domain specific techniques like graph, mathematics-related, string processing, and computational geometry will also be covered. Some additional topics may be included depending on how the semester progresses. Programming language libraries that are commonly used in problem solving will also be taught.
*We only study well-known/solved problems, not research problems.
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Course Registration
The quota of this class (Sem 2 AY2018/19) is ... technically only limited by the size of COM1-B-PL2 (46 PCs) ... but not that many NUS students are eligible (or dare enough) to take this extremely competitive module. In recent years, only ~20 NUS students were enrolled and only a few (10 out of 189) are female...
Useful information to help you decide on whether you should offline register for CS3233:
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Do you have national (but preferably international) programming competition background before? Examples: NOI (or IDN OSN, VNM VNOI, CHN NOIP, MYS MCO, PHL NOI, IND ICO, etc), IOI, ICPC(especially ICPC Asia Singapore Regional Contest 2015/2018), Google Code Jam, Facebook Hacker Cup, Topcoder Open, etc?
The difficulty of this course is very extreme for those without such background... but typically those that satisfy the next requirement (see question 2) can survive just as well... We will study problems that require (advanced) data structure and/or algorithms that are typically asked in programming competitions, and we have to implement those solutions fast and without bug...
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Did you score well (at least A-) in CS2010/CS2040/C or equivalent (and preferably score A+ in all CS1101S+CS2020 (senior batch) or CS1010+CS1020+CS2010 (senior batch) or CS1010/CS1101S+CS2030+CS2040 (current batch))?
This module has a very high performance bar and the average CAP of the students enrolled in the past seven academic years were 4.78 (remember, year 1 nowadays have much more S/U options) , 4.3+ (not tracked) , 4.33, 4.44, 4.43, 4.45, and 4.30 (out of 5.00), respectively. You will need special permission from the instructor (Dr Steven Halim) if you do not satisfy the pre-requisites listed above (the filter is there for your own good).
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Are you OK to be tortured for one semester for a mere 4 modular credits (your other modules may also suffer)?
You may have to take lighter set of other modules or be ready to S/U other modules or to rush course project submissions (for project-based modules that have STePS on Wednesday night of Week 13) or to rush final assessment preparations for other modules only during study week (no final assessment for CS3233). Please do NOT take CS3233 module with another module that is known to be challenging unless you are very confident of yourself and have historical academic performance to back that up. Moreover, your ego may be hurt if some of the young NOI 2018 trainees (Sec2-JC2 students) beat you in (many) CS3233 contests. Try to ask CS3233 seniors who have taken (and survived) this module before applying!
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Are you thinking on applying to top (or emerging) IT companies like NUS ICPC team donors: Indeed (Singapore), Seagroup (Garena), Jump Trading, DRW; or other IT companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox, MemSQL, Grab, etc in the future?
Some of our ex-CS3233 graduates are now in those companies :). See the CS3233 Hall of Fame to see the current known status of CS3233 past top students.
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Can you code in C++ (primary language), Java (second choice), and/or Python (a new one for this round)?
We will use C++ (11), Java (8), and Python (3.5.2 in Kattis, 2.5.1 :( in Mooshak for now until I am able to reconfigure Mooshak to accept Python 3) in CS3233 S2 AY2018/19. In this course, we are expecting students to be multi-lingual :O. Although a few ex-students had survived CS3233 with only Java, they struggled more compared to those who are well versed in C++ (fastest programming language for programming competitions). This time, Python (3) will be introduced. However, Python code is usually slow (albeit usually also shorter). An algorithm written in Python may get TLE while the same algorithm written in C++ pass the time limit.
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Do you want to learn interesting data structures, algorithms, (other programming language especially if C++ is not your primary language) and more importantly: On how to apply them properly — from teaching staffs who are deeply involved in such programming competitions?
(Senior) Lecturer: Dr Steven Halim, current Singapore IOI team leader, NUS ICPC coach, ICPC Asia Singapore Regional Contest Director, the author of Competitive Programming text book (the official text book of this module, we will use 2018b version that is first sold onsite at ICPC Asia Singapore 2018).
Rating (out of 5.0, SoC avg ~4.1) Jan-Apr 2019 (n=??) Jan-Apr 2018 (n=21) Jan-Apr 2017 (n=16) Jan-Apr 2016 (n=20) Jan-Apr 2015 (n=22) Jan-Apr 2014 (n=19) Jan-Apr 2013 (n=18) Jan-Apr 2012 (n=24) Module feedback 4.7+? (Target) 4.8 (PB) 4.8 (PB) ▲ 4.563 ▼ 4.733 ▲ 4.455 ▼ 4.545 ▼ 4.778 Module difficulty 4.1-? (Target) 4.1 4.3 4.563 :O 4.067 3.909 4.364 4.444 Steven's teaching 4.7+? (Target) 4.8 4.8 ▲ 4.603 ▼ 4.863 (PB) ▲ 4.548 ▲ 4.455 ▼ 4.778 Qualified Teaching Assistant:
1. Robin Christopher Yu a.k.a. robinyu (Philippines first Bronze medalist (2x), then Philippines first Silver medalist, and currently an NUS ICPC team member: team 3Sophomores, 3rd place in ICPC Jakarta 2018).
Usually, CS3233 TAs have teaching feedback rating of around ~4.500 too (i.e. good ones).
Robin will be mostly available in NUS ICPC Lab (COM1-02-15), especially every Monday, 2.30-4.30pm to answer any CS3233/Competitive Programming queries, if any. - Are you OK to have your coding style 'somewhat damaged' because of this course?
Known damages are (illustrations are in C++), but not limited to:
- One character variable names (why type more than necessary), e.g. int i,j,k,l,u,v,w; (PS: i,j,k,l for up to 4-nested loop counter variables and u,v,w for reading directed edge (u → v) with weight w)
- Putting all those variables as global variables (so that you never have to pass them as function parameter(s), especially the heavy ones like multi-dimensional arrays)
- Intentional memory wastage by declaring big arrays as global variable (usually DP table) as big as the problem statement says, e.g. int memo[1000][1000][2]; although we may only use parts of it on many smaller test cases
- If local (loop) variables are needed, use for-loop's initialization part (why waste additional lineS), e.g. for (int i=0,ans=0,flag=1;i<N;i++){...}
- Using autos everywhere and let the compiler do the variable type deduction work, e.g. for (auto &v:AL[u]){...}
- No comment (compiler doesn't need that to compile your code and you won't read your own code after end of contest/max 5 hours, so why write comments?)
- No function other than int main() (compiler just need this to run your code!)
- No space unless absolutely necessary (your compiler understands that :O), e.g. for(sum=i=0;i<N;i++)sum+=(A[i]>0?A[i]:0);
- One-liner-ing selection/repetition command/body if they are short, e.g. if (x>0) y++,z++;, for (int i=0,j=1;i<N;i++,j*=2) or while (scanf("%d",&N),N){...} (yes, you can use commaS)
- Use (uhuk... nested...) ternary operation (condition)?(if_true):(if_false); as far as possible if that helps you to one-liner several standard if-elseif-else lines...
- Inlining (and one-liner-ing) short functions like inline inside(int r,int c){return r>=0&&r<R&&c>=0&&c<C;} for slightly faster speed
- As we want to shorten SLOC as far as possible, obviously we do not need to use blank line to separate logical blocks of code
- Excessive usage of macros and typedefs, e.g. #define INF 1e9; #define MOD (1e9+7); typedef long long ll; typedef tuple<int,int,int> iii;
- Use bitmask operations whenever possible, e.g. printf("%d\n", __builtin_popcount(m));
- Including all libraries upfront, much more than possibly necessary, to avoid silly compilation errors albeit (slightly) increase compilation time, e.g. #include <bits/stdc++.h>
- 'Hack' C++ STL defaults to suit our needs, e.g. inserting negated input integers into priority_queue<int> pq; to make it into a Min-PQ instead of default Max-PQ (instead of definining our own comparison function)
- Intentional memory leaks, e.g. instead of wasting runtime 'free'ing deleted vertices in a pointer based segment tree, we just re-initialize a new segment tree for another test case (especially after seeing memory limit = 2GB, for example)
- On some rare occassions, we use the 'forbidden' goto statement...
- Using C++ operator shortcuts as far as possible, e.g. i++; i *= 2; i %= 7;
- Using namespace std (as there is no other namespace to consider in a short C++ program)
- And many scary stuffs that are hated by SE purists...
Fortunately, it is known that past CP-ers can somehow undo these damages to return back to normal SE practices, e.g. this one.
If you have read all (scary) questions above and are still interested, simply notify Steven for offline registration before CORS round 3B (the last day of application). The offline registration will be closed as soon as the number of students hits 25 NUS students as we will be joined by about ~20 SG high school students. To minimize the annual attrition rate on Week 02 (Drop without penalty) and also :O on Recess Week (Drop with a 'W' grade), the pre-acceptance selection will be made much more rigorous than even last year's crazy rate, i.e. by showing Steven that the applicant can score at least 500 Kattis points (only 100 Kattis points in previous AY) by Monday, 14 January 2019, 08.59AM.
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News
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To be Added during Round 3A
Dynamic Table (auto updated every 6 hours or so) can be found at https://www.csbot.space/CS3233/index.
| No | Flag | Name | Course/Year | Qualified? | Kattis points, rank (06 Dec 18) |
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| 0 |  SGP |
Lim Li (admin only) | COM/1 | IOI Silver Medal (SGP) | 0636.2, 263 (see csbot above) |
| 1 |  VNM |
Le Quang Tuan | COM/1 | 15th in WF Beijing18 | 0106.3, < 3000 (see csbot above) |
| 2 | VNM |
Nguyen Dinh Quang Minh | COM/1 | 15th in WF Beijing18 | 0425.6, < 500 (see csbot above) |
| 3 | VNM |
Tran Tan Phat | COM/1 | 3rd in NakhonPathom18; IOI Silver Medal (VNM) | 0117.1, < 2600 (see csbot above) |
| 4 |  IDN |
Steven Wijaya | COM/1 | 12th in Jakarta18 | 0211.6, < 1300 (see csbot above) |
| 5 | IDN |
Yehezkiel Raymundo Theodoroes | COM/1 | 12th in Jakarta18 | 0000.0, > 40000 (see csbot above) |
| 6 | IDN |
Samuel Henry Kurniawan | SCI/4 | 20th in Jakarta18 | 0910.1, 162 (see csbot above) |
| 7 | SGP |
Wang Zhi Jian | COM/1 | 11th in SG18-prel | 1108.2, 120 (see csbot above) |
| 8 | SGP |
Matthew Ng Zhen Rui | ENG/3 | A+ in CS2040C S2 AY2018/19 | 1429.9, 76 :O (see csbot above) |
| 9 |  MYS |
Teh Nian Fei | CEG/2 | Now aim for 1K by yourself before 14 Jan 19 | 0665.5, 252 (see csbot above) |
| 10 |  IND |
Aaryam Srivastava | CEG/2 | Now aim for 1K by yourself before 14 Jan 19 | 0536.9, 338 (see csbot above) |
| 11 | SGP |
Way Tan | COM?/2? | Now aim for 1K by yourself before 14 Jan 19 | 0511.0, 359 (see csbot above) |
| 12 | VNM |
Dao Truong Giang | CHE/4 | Now aim for 1K by yourself before 14 Jan 19 | 0508.0, 358 (see csbot above) |
| 13 | SGP |
Ler Wei Sheng | CEG/2 | Now aim for 1K by yourself before 14 Jan 19 | 0505.5, 361 (see csbot above) |
| 14 | SGP |
Mohideen Imran Khan | CEG/1 | Will have to pass 500.0 Kattis points challenge special challenge by 14 Jan 19 | 0391.8, < 540 |
| 15 | MYS |
Lim Jay Ching | EXC (UWaterloo) :O | Will have to pass 500.0 Kattis points challenge special challenge by 14 Jan 19 | 0281.6, < 860 |
| 16 | MYS |
Khaw Yew Onn | MPE/5?+ARS/4 :O | Will have to pass 500.0 Kattis points challenge special challenge by 14 Jan 19 | 0168.8, < 1700 |
| 17 | IDN |
Daniel Alfred Widjaja | COM/1 | Will have to pass 500.0 Kattis points challenge special challenge by 14 Jan 19 | 0097.2, < 3150 |
| 18 | IDN |
Jerrell Ezralemuel | COM/2 | 20th in Jakarta18 | 0052.0, < 5600 |
| 19 | SGP |
Chiang Weng Kiat | COM?/? | Will have to pass 500.0 Kattis points challenge special challenge by 14 Jan 19 | 0029.4, < 10000 |
Lesson Plan
The lesson plan is easy to remember: All our face to face activities are on Mondays (NOTE: THE DAY IS NO LONGER WEDNESDAY AS WITH THE PAST TEN YEARS), but basically you will work for the entire week for the entire semester 2 if you take this module, possibly harming the Continuous Assessment (CA) marks of your other modules.
- Students read the assigned CP3.18b readings before coming to the Monday class.
- Then, students complete weekly homework (of previous week) before every Monday, 09.00am, problem Bs by Monday, 4.30pm, and Kattis set of that week by Monday, 5.30pm (before the next class).
- Then, students come to class, ready to attempt the weekly mini contest (with time and peer-(or young Sec/JC student)-pressure) every Monday, 5.30-6.45pm.
- Then, TA will give immediate on-the-spot solution discussion until at most 7.15pm (max 25 minutes with buffer).
- Finally, after a short break, Steven will give more eye-opening lecture about related (but not 100% the same as what you have read by yourself at home) problem solving techniques every Monday, 7.30-8.50pm (max 1h 15m with buffer). Steven will have to dismiss everyone from PL2 latest by 9pm.
- We repeat this throughout the semester :).
| Week | Self Reading from CP3.18b before class (Flipped Classroom) | Homework (Mon, 10.00am) |
Contest + Debrief (Mon, 5.30-6.45-7.15pm, PL2) |
Class Topics (Mon, 7.30-8.50pm, PL2) |
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As many pages from CP1/2/3/3.17a/b/3.18a/b; At least from preface up to the end of Chapter 4; Note: For the actual semester, you must have a copy of CP3.18b to go through this course successfully | Lots of preparatory work especially for those who do not have competitive programming background yet | No contest yet; But if you are not a multi-lingual programmer yet, pick up both C/C++11 (main), Java, and maybe also Python (2/3) by yourself during holiday time | At home: Set up a (free) Kattis account (open), solve first few easy ≤ 2.5 pointer problems @ Kattis, then use Dec18/early Jan19 holiday (~6 weeks) to get ≥ 500 points (~200 AC of ~2.5 pointer problems or ~330 AC of ~1.5 pointer problems (first ~3+ pages sorted based on difficulty :O), use Steven's classification here) in Kattis by Mon, 14 Jan 19, 09.59am to ensure module acceptance, familiarize yourself with Ubuntu 16 (or 18) LTS with GNOME desktop, or self-read the older teaching materials in this public website |
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01 14 Jan |
Preface to Chapter 1 (all pages) plus simple Ad Hoc problems in Chapter 9 |
Continue solving various Kattis problems of your choice. |
Mock Ad Hoc (after first lecture) |
Let's Talk CP Introduction; Brief Course Admins; Focus on delivering some "Wow Moments"; A Bit of C++11; Introduction to Python for ICPC, Mock/Preview Contest (not graded, but has high standard) |
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02 21 Jan |
Chapter 2; Focus on Section 2.2, 2.4.3, and 2.4.4; Read the rest of Chapter 2 by yourself Steven is away ~Thu, 17 Jan to Mon, 21 Jan (≤ 3PM) 2019 a family event; No CS3233 class is affected Decision to Drop CS3233 without penalty by Sun, 27 Jan 19 (email UG office for manual drop, cc to Dr Steven Halim) |
HW01 due Kattis set #01 due |
Mini 01 "Around Linear" Algorithms |
Be A Librarian Mastery of Libraries (C++ STL, Java API, & Python Standard Library); Focus on Bit Manipulation and Binary Indexed (Fenwick) Tree VisuAlgo: bitmask, segmenttree (optional), fenwicktree |
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03 28 Jan |
Chapter 3, 4, and 8; Focus on Section 3.1-2, 4.2.3, 4.4.2-3, and 8.1-8.2; Read Section 3.3 and 3.4 by yourself |
HW02 due Solve Mini 01 B/C Kattis set #02 due |
Mini 02 Libraries |
Searching for Answers Iterative Techniques (the fancier ones); Recursive Backtracking (bitmask-based, reverse thinking, data compression, etc); State-Space Search (harder form of SSSP, Graph modeling + BFS/Dijkstra's) with Meet in the Middle (Bidirectional Search) VisuAlgo: bitmask, recursion |
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04 04 Feb |
No Mon EV Class Due to CNY Week CNY Reunion Dinner on Mon, 04 Feb... CNY Day 1 on Tue, 05 Feb CNY Day 2 on Wed, 06 Feb |
HW03 (short) due Solve Mini 02 B/C Kattis set #03 due (auto) |
No Mini Contest | No Lecture |
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05 11 Feb |
Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9; Focus on various sections about DP: Section 3.5, 4.7, 4.8.1, 5.4, 5.6, 5.9, 6.5, 8.3, 8.4.2, 8.4.4, 9.6, 9.19, and 9.29 Happy Valentine's Day (Thu) |
HW04 due Kattis set #04 due |
Mini 03 Complete Search |
The Art of Stenography Dynamic Programming; "Instant" review of CS3230 DP Materials; Focus on relationship between DP and DAG; Discussion of a few non-classic DP examples; Formulating non trivial DP states + transitions VisuAlgo: bitmask, recursion |
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06 18 Feb |
Chapter 8; Focus on the new Section 8.4; Optional: Read the first 1/3 of CS4234 material Happy Valentine's Day (Wed) and Happy CNY (Fri-Sat) of this week, BUT do not disappear!! |
HW04 due Solve Mini 03 B/C Kattis set #05 due |
Mini 04 DP |
Coping with (NP-)hard Problems Summary of the first 1/3 of CS4234 - Optimisation Algorithms in CS3233 style. VisuAlgo: mvc, steinertree, tsp |
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Recess 25 Feb |
Although we are not supposed to have any face to face activity this week, nobody prevents you to keep solving Kattis problems 'by yourself' :). Again, peruse Steven's classification here, this time probably aiming for the 3-4+ pointer problems... Decision to Drop CS3233 with 'W' grade by Sun, 03 Mar 19 Week 07-13 Plan TBA |
Nothing this week Enjoy your break (or enjoy solving random Kattis problems) |
No class |
No class |
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07 04 Mar |
Chapter 4 and 9; Focus on Section 4.6 and 9.20; Optional: Read the Max-Flow material of CS4234 |
HW05 due (no mini contest in recess week) Kattis set #06 due |
Mini 05 (NP-)hard Problems |
How to Prevent Flood? Quick overview of Network Flow; Quick review of Ford Fulkerson's Max Flow algorithm variants: Edmonds Karp's and especially Dinic's (short comparison with Push-Relabel); Focus on Flow Graph Modeling skill and applications VisuAlgo: maxflow |
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08 11 Mar |
Chapter 4, 8, and 9; Focus on Section 4.7, 4.8.4, 8.4.5, 9.6, 9.8, 9.12, and 9.16; Read the Graph Matching material of CS4234. NOI 2018 Competition; Fri-Sat, 15-16 Mar 19 (TBC) |
HW06 due Solve Mini 05 B/C Kattis set #07 due |
Mini 06 Graph1 Network Flow |
Social Development Network Quick overview of Graph Matching; Unweighted or Weighted MCBM or MCM; Introducing Kuhn Munkres's (Hungarian) algorithm and Edmonds's (Blossom Shrinking)/Matching algorithm; Focus remains on (Bipartite) Graph Modeling skill and applications VisuAlgo: maxflow, matching |
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09 18 Mar |
Chapter 5 and 9; Focus on Section 5.3-5.5; Read the rest of Chapter 5 by yourself; Plus Section 9.9, 9.10, and 9.23 |
HW07 due Solve Mini 06 B/C Kattis set #08 due |
Mini 07 Graph2 Matching TA: Wei Liang |
NUMB3RS Mathematics overview with a movie; Focus on Java/Python Big Integer, Combinatorics, Number Theory (Extended Euclid, Modular Inverse, Chinese Remainder Theorem) VisuAlgo: cyclefinding |
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10 25 Mar |
Chapter 6; Focus on Section 6.6; Read the rest of Chapter 6 by yourself |
HW08 due Solve Mini 07 B/C Kattis set #09 due |
Mini 08 Mathematics |
(PS: We will do midterm team contest formation after Mini 08) A Glance at Bioinformatics String Processing; Focus on Suffix Trie, Suffix Tree, and Suffix Array VisuAlgo: suffixtree, suffixarray |
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11 01 Apr |
Re-read Week 01-05 reading materials and CS1020/2010/2020/2040/C stuffs; Read "standard" graph topics by yourself (Section 4.1-4.5) |
No written HW Solve Mini 08 B/C Kattis set #10 due |
Midterm Team Contest CS2010/2020/2040/C + Week01-05 5.30-9.00pm (3h 30m) |
No lecture, we will do Midterm Team Contest on Week 11 :O VisuAlgo (for self-review): heap, hashtable, bst, graphds, dfsbfs, ufds, mst, sssp Steven and ??? CS3233 students will go to Porto, Portugal to represent NUS for ICPC World Finals 2019. This Midterm Team Contest will be invigilated by Steven's colleague (TBC). It will be on Kattis (TBC) :O. |
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12 08 Apr |
Chapter 7; Focus on Section 7.2, 7.3, 9.4; Read the rest of Chapter 7 by yourself Also something from Chapter 8/9 and something not found in CP3.18b |
HW09 due Solve some non AC midterm contest by yourself (optional) Kattis set #11 due |
Mini 09 String |
(PS: We have to take class photo tonight, after Mini 09, then do final team contest formation) Inside Video Games (Computational) Geometry; Focus on Algorithms on Points, Lines, and Polygon, Art Gallery Problem VisuAlgo: polygon, convexhull (ADDITIONAL BUT SHORT) The Last Lecture Please give me 30 extra minutes on 08 April to complete CS3233 We will only end the class at 9.30pm on this night... |
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13 15 Apr |
The entire CP3.18b book and beyond |
No written HW (HW10 during reading week) Solve Mini 09 B/C Kattis set #12 due |
Final Team Contest Week01-11 stuffs (geometry problemS exist!) 5.30-9.00pm (3h 30m) With food (TBC) |
No lecture, we will do Final Team Contest (should NOT clash with STePS this time, as we have moved to Monday night) Good Friday and Easter Sunday this Week |
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Reading Week | Time for you to study for your other modules... unless you are chasing some more points from Kattis apprentice achievement... | HW10 (special) due |
Join NUS ICPC team selection (~September 2019) |
No final assessment, go and save your other modules |
Hall of Fame
This table records the previous top students of CS3233 under Dr Steven Halim (rank 1 up to at most rank 3) of that Academic Year and their current known affiliation as per last contact with Dr Steven Halim.
| AY (Iteration) | Rank | Flag and Name | Best ICPC Record | Current Job |
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| 2008/09 (1) | 1 | Ngo Minh Duc |
World Finalist 2009 (HM) & 2010 (HM) | Addepar (US) |
| 2008/09 (1) | 2 | Nguyen Hoanh Tien |
World Finalist 2009 (HM) & 2010 (HM) | Microsoft (US) |
| 2009/10 (2) | 1 | Trinh Tuan Phuong |
World Finalist 2012 (HM) & 2013 (joint-48) | Quantcast (SG) |
| 2010/11 (3) | 1 | Koh Zi Chun |
World Finalist 2012 (HM) | Microsoft (US) |
| 2010/11 (3) | 2 | Harta Wijaya |
World Finalist 2012 (HM) & 2013 (joint-48) | Facebook (US) |
| 2011/12 (4) | 1 |  Yang Mansheng |
N/A | Dynamic Technology Lab (SG) |
| 2012/13 (5) | 1 | Nguyen Tan Sy Nguyen |
World Finalist 2013 (joint-48) & 2016 (joint-14) | Anduin Transactions (VN) |
| 2013/14 (6) | 1 | Nathan Azaria |
World Finalist 2014 (joint-19) & 2015 (joint-28) | Facebook (UK) |
| 2013/14 (6) | 2 | Jonathan Irvin Gunawan |
World Finalist 2014 (joint-19) & 2015 (joint-28) | Google (SG) |
| 2014/15 (7) | 1 | Stefano Chiesa Suryanto |
Fourth place in Regional Asia Singapore 2015 | Improbable (UK) |
| 2014/15 (7) | 2 | Vu Dinh Quang Dat |
World Finalist 2015 (joint-28) & 2018 (joint-56) | Dynamic Technology Lab (SG) |
| 2015/16 (8) | 1 | Nguyen Quang Dung |
Tenth place in Regional Asia Phuket+Singapore 2015 | 4th year UG |
| 2015/16 (8) | 2 | Truong Ngoc Khanh |
Twentieth place in Regional Asia Singapore 2015 | Seagroup (SG) |
| 2016/17 (9) | 1 | Tan Jun An |
N/A | 4th year UG |
| 2016/17 (9) | 2 | Agus Sentosa Hermawan |
World Finalist 2017 (joint-20) | 3rd year UG |
| 2017/18 (10) | 1 |  Robin Christopher Cham Yu |
Third place in Regional Asia Jakarta 2018 | 2nd year UG |
| 2017/18 (10) | 2 | Sergio Vieri |
Third place in Regional Asia Jakarta 2018 | 2nd year UG |
| 2017/18 (10) | 3 | Bay Wei Heng |
Fifteenth place in Regional Asia Jakarta 2017 | 3rd year UG |