Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest 2022
08 Oct 2022 - E-building
10:00 - 17:00
The Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC) is the Nordic Championships in Competitive programming in teams for university students. Both student teams and professional teams are welcome to participate.
Register for the contest at https://icpc.global/regionals/finder/Nordic-2022. Pick Lund University as site. All team members need an account at https://icpc.global/ to register.
Last date to register is Wednesday the 5th of October.
There was an info meeting the 29th of September with a lecture introducing NCPC followed by a practice contest.
Schedule
8th of October
| Time | Place | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | E:B | Last minute information |
| 11:00 - 16:00 | Contest rooms | The contest |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | E:B | Solution session & Prize ceremony |
This year your team participates from a single personal computer on site at LTH (please read the rules below).
Sponsors & Prizes
Neo4j and Voyado are the sponsors of NCPC@LTH in 2022.
The top student teams will have the possibility to participate in the regional contest NWERC, which will take place the 25th-27th of November.
About NCPC
NCPC is an annual 5 hour contest where your team is given 8-13 algorithmic problems to solve.
The problems vary greatly in difficulty, from beginner level to extremely hard.
Solve each problem by:
- Writing a program in one of the supported programming languages
- Test it locally on your computer with the sample test cases
- Submit it to the online judge system Kattis.
- Wait for the results on the secret test cases.
Kattis will tell you if your program:
- Was Correct (Accepted)
- Produced the wrong output (Wrong Answer)
- Ran too slow (Time Limit Exceeded)
- Crashed (Run Time Error)
If you submit a program which is not correct, but you later in the contest solve the problem, you receive some penalty time for the incorrect attempt.
At LTH this contest is used as the qualifier for the regional contest NWERC. The top student teams that are ICPC-eligible will advance to NWERC.
The contest was created in Lund in 1991 by Roy Andersson at the department of Computer Science at Lund University, and has since been organized yearly. In 1996 it became the Swedish Championships, and in 2011 it became the Nordic Championships. At http://cs.lth.se/contest/ information, images and previous scoreboards are archived.
Rules
In short:
- A team consists of 1 - 3 team members
- You may only use one computer.
- You participate on your own computer - at LTH.
- You are allowed you use the internet during the contest.
- You are allowed to use pre written code in the contest.
- You are not allowed to ask anyone outside your team for help. It is also forbidden to put up questions on forums or in chat groups.
- Your team is ranked by the number of problems you solve, and then by penalty time.
Your team is ICPC-eligible (can compete in the student contest) if all team members fulfills the following criteria:
- Born in 1999 or later
- Started studying at Lund University 2018 or later
- Is still enrolled at Lund University.
If these criteria does not hold for all team members, your team instead participate in the open contest.
The full rules can be found at the official NCPC 2022 website.
Tips
If you have not previously participated in NCPC a great way to prepare is to have a look at the problems from last year. Solve the problems ordered by how many people solved them during the contest - marked by green on the scoreboard.