High School Programming League 2009/10

The 4th series of the contest is over!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:01:12 +0100

The 4th set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 72 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

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IdeoneApi special contest reminder

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:31:20 +0100

This is just a short reminder. Please have a look at RunThis to get an example idea.

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Last week of the 4th series!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:49:31 +0100

This is the last week of the 4th problem set series. Starting with today, submissions to "Intergalactic Security Organization (Act IV)" problem are tested on all 12 data sets and the results are visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 12 data sets after the submission deadline).

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IdeoneAPI registration deadline forwarded.

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:31:26 +0100

Due to inconsistency in deadline dates it has been forwarded by 14 days. We welcome IdeoneAPI Team registration forms by March 20, 2010.

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IdeoneApi special contest

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:16:24 +0100

We invite you to take part in a new special contest. On February 1, 2010 Ideone API was made available. It allows you to use Ideone as a web service with your own desktop application, www server application or even mobile application (please have a look at Ideone API for some examples). We invite you to use the website creatively and to develop your own applications in the technology of your choice. Total prizes (350$). We expect Team registration by 6 March (more).

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The end of the 4th series forwarded

�ukasz Kuszner — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:40:43 +0100

The deadline of the 4th problem set series has been extended until Saturday, March 13.

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The 4th problem set series

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:19:04 +0100

Two problem formulations are available. Submitting solutions and the remaining 3 problems will be available next week.

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Official results of the 3rd series

�ukasz Kuszner — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:09:31 +0100

Top 5 contestants (individual standings):

1. Jakub Pachocki	(III Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland)
2. Vasiliy Mokin	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Sergei Fedorov	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. Pavel Kunjavski	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
5. Ivan Katani�	(Gimnazija Po�ega, Croatia)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Vasiliy Mokin (vasiliy), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Kunjavski Pavel (kuniavski).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
(coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland
(coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. III Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland
(coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)

The winner of the special contest is Krystian Dowolski (kosciej16) a student of the VIII Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im Marii Sk�odowskiej-Curie w Katowicach. The prize is a SPOJ T-shirt and books to be choosen by the winner (worth up to 50$), congratulations! Anyway, the solution submitted by Robert Gerbicz (the problem setter) is still the shortest one.

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
books receive: Jakub Woyke (jwoyke), Adam Mo�cicki (mostua);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Mateusz Bugdalski (rocket), Jakub Sygnowski (sygi).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

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The 3rd series of the contest is over!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:00:21 +0100

The 3rd set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

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Last week of the 3rd series!

�ukasz Kuszner — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:55:38 +0100

This is the last week of the 3rd problem set series. Starting with Saturday, submissions to "All Red" problem are tested on all 10 data sets and the results are visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 10 data sets after the submission deadline).

Also the lengths of submitted source codes to "Primes in Brainf##k" problem are not on public display.

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Happy New Year 2010!

�ukasz Kuszner — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:57:37 +0100

Let your enthusiasm for learning lasts for the end of your life. Many successes and a Happy New Year.

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Merry Christmas!

�ukasz Kuszner — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:08:30 +0100

Best Wishes for a very Merry Christmas to all HSPL participants.

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Ideone.com

�ukasz Kuszner — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:46:38 +0100

Ideone.com is a... pastebin. But a pastebin like no other in the Internet. More accurate expression would be online mini IDE and debugging tool. Share, allow to clone and run your code on server side in 38 programming languages (number still growing) and do it all with your own input data! You can even try to debug your HSPL solution, but remember to set private option.

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The 3rd problem set series is under way!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:11:22 +0100

Third problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Good luck!

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Official results of the 2nd series

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:10:57 +0100

Top 5 contestants (individual standings):

1. Victor Sadkov	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
2. Grzegorz Gu�piel	(V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)
3. Sergei Fedorov	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. �ukasz Solak	(VIII Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im Marii Sk�odowskiej-Curie w Katowicach, Poland)
5. Sebastian Mizera	(V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Victor Sadkov (vitan), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Kunjavski Pavel (kuniavski).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Rosja
(coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Polska
(coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. Spojena skola Novohradska, Slovakia
(coach: Ondrej Demacek)

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
one year's electronic subscription to Hakin9 receive: Damian Kociuba (appleman), Marcin Skiba (ilu2112);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Marcin Baczy�ski (monstter), Aleksander Domaga�a (fjjf172839).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

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Registration

�ukasz Kuszner — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:26:51 +0100

Due to constant queries, we inform that the registration is still possible. Please take to an account that registration will be valid to the series while the registration form will reach our office a week before the series deadline.

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We have more than 2000 contestants!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:24:16 +0100

neo303 (mukulrajput30) as 2000th contestant accepted regulations and joined the contest, welcome! Please remember that according to contest rules Internet part overall standings are based on the sum of big points taken from three best series results. Thus, everyone still has a chance to win!

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The 2nd series of the contest is over!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:00:03 +0100

The 2nd set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

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Last week of the 2nd series!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:51:31 +0100

This is the last week of the 2nd problem set series. Starting with today, submissions to "All Sets Sequence" problem are tested on all 10 data sets and the results will only be visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 10 data sets after the submission deadline).

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Mowing Optimization movies

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:17:49 +0100

Thanks to Przemek Komosa (pschemo) for some animations showing best solutions in action.

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The 2nd problem set series is under way!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:20:07 +0100

Second problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Four problems are already available for solving! The remaining one, and a list of prizes will be available soon.

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Official results of the 1st series

�ukasz Kuszner — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:39:02 +0100

Top 5 contestants (individual standings):

1. Grzegorz Gu�piel	(V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)
2. Vasiliy Mokin	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Sergei Fedorov	(Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. Jakub Pachocki	(III Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland)
5. Piotr Maszlanka	(Zesp� Szk� Elektronicznych w Rzeszowie, Poland)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Vasiliy Mokin (vasiliy), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Victor Sadkov (vitan).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Rosja
(coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Polska
(coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. III Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Polska
(coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
one year's subscription to Linux+ receive: Norbert Gregorek (kafor7) i Maciej Ma�ecki (smt116);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Wojciech Pitu�a (krev) i �ukasz Starzyk (divh).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

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The 1st series of the contest is over!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:01:26 +0200

A big thank-you to all participants of the 1st contest series. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Now, you can discuss your solutions at contest forum.

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Last week of the 1st series

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:00:01 +0200

This is the last week of the 1st problem set series. Submissions to Mowing Optimization problem are now available. Status of submissions will be visible to the submitting contestant only.

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The end of the 1st series and the registration deadline extended!

�ukasz Kuszner — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:52:42 +0200

Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline and the registration deadline has been extended. School registration is possible until Saturday, October 17 and solutions to first series problems might be submitted until noon Saturday, October 24.

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Exemplary tests for Mowing Optimization problem

�ukasz Kuszner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:09:03 +0200

Exemplary test cases for Mowing Optimization problem have been revealed.

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The last ten days for the contest registration

�ukasz Kuszner — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:38:23 +0200

We kindly remind you to register before October 10. Please, ensure that your school has been officially registered.

Please, have a look at official standings and the list of prizes. The sponsors for this series are: Talent Association, Sphere Research Labs and Linux+ Magazine.

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The 0 series special contest is over!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:50:17 +0200

The winner of the 0 series special contest is Peter Szoke (pszoeke), who solved the problem BMI in 35 of the languages available at SPOJ. But the best among registered contestant is Tomasz Kominiarczuk (elfling) a student of the 1st High School in Legnica, Poland (I Liceum Og�lnokszta�c�ce im. T. Ko�ciuszki w Legnicy). The prize is a SPOJ T-shirt and books to be choosen by the winner (worth up to 50$), congratulations!

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We have 1000 contestants!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:38:24 +0200

David Hoffman (kerplatz) as 1000th contestant accepted regulations and joined the contest, welcome! Do you think that High School Programming League is an interesting event and one thousand is not enough? If so, please help us to promote it! You will find an appropriate materials at press office page.

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We have started!

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:00:01 +0200

First problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Three problems are already available for solving! The remaining two, and a list of prizes will be available soon.

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Special contest deadline extended!

�ukasz Kuszner — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:15:13 +0200

Due to technical problems caused by the last SPOJ major upgrade the deadline for the special contest (solving test problem in as many programming languages as possible) has been extended until Saturday, September 26.

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Scarky.com

�ukasz Kuszner — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:34:04 +0200

Scarky.com is a free web service that allows you to create a variety of challenges (including programming) and to place them on your website or blog. Please visit Scarky Blog to obtain further details.

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Test problem

�ukasz Kuszner — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:10:24 +0200

The test problem has been made available. Please have a look at rules, info, SPOJ guide and a short description of the previous contest edition.

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Welcome!

�ukasz Kuszner — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:59:42 +0200

You can find the HSPL first edition web pages at hs08.spoj.pl. Registration for the second edition is absolutely free and will be available from September 5, 2009.

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Problem HS09CPG is available

Yandry P�rez Clemente — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:02:41 +0100

Problem HS09CPG (6047. Car Plate Generation) is now available in the set4 problemset.

Read the problem text: HS09CPG

Problem HS09ISO is available

�ukasz Kuszner — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:00:19 +0100

Problem HS09ISO (6027. Intergalactic Security Organization (Act IV)) is now available in the set4 problemset.

Read the problem text: HS09ISO

Problem HS09API1 is available

�ukasz Kuszner — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:56:32 +0100

Problem HS09API1 (6208. IdeoneAPI special contest (Stage 1) ) is now available in the ideoneapi problemset.

Read the problem text: HS09API1