South Pacific Region: University of Sydney Site

The is the site for the ACM Sydney Regional Competition. (See also: local site.) September 15th, 2007 will see sites across Australia and New Zealand compete in the South Pacific Regional Contest for the ACM Programming Contest. The Contest, sponsored by IBM, involves thousands of teams internationally. Top teams from each regional have the honour of representing the country and region in the finals, which will be Canada.

The competition involves teams, each with 3 students at 1 terminal, working over 5 hours. The regional competition runs for Australia and New Zealand will select teams to represent the region at the world finals.

Location

School of IT Building J12 Map reference L25-26.

Parking

There is parking available at the Shepherd Street carpark ($6 for the weekends and evenings). There is also excellent public transport access to the university. (About a 10min walk from Redfern station and en route for many buses.)

Contest Timetable

11:00 Arrival and registration
11:15 Introduction and contest instructions
11:30 Familiarisation with the environment
12:00 Contest starts
17:00 Contest ends
18:30 Presentations to teams.

Environment

Java

   jdk1.5.0_09

C/C++

   Visual Studio 2005 Professional (full install)
   MinGW Developer Studio 2.05 (includes gcc)
   DevC++ 4.9.9.2

Pascal - NONE

Useful links

South Pacific Region | FAQ | Newsroom | Results | Rules for World Finals | World Finals Information

Coordinator: Judy Kay