UT High School Compute Science Contest
February 9, 2013

Reminders:

• UT Parking restrictions are strictly enforced even on the weekends. Parking on central campus is very limited. Please park in valid locations only.
  
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• Contest location is University Teaching Center (UTC), next to the Perry-Castañeda library. Check in is on the ground floor between rooms 2.102A and 2.112A, just past the escalators. (Yes, the ground floor is numbered "2".)
  
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• Teams consist of a maximum of three students. (This is different than the standard UIL 4 member teams, only 3 of whom program.)
   

• Submission of programs during hands on via PC^2 version 9.2.3.
  CD with PC^2 provided at check in.
  Systems for hands on must have wireless.
  Sample data files provided on CD only, not USB.
  Standard UIL programming rules apply. (2 books as references, old programs must be cleared from machine, Java API documentation may be loaded on machine, single keyboard per system, printers allowed.)
  
  Systems must have Java added to its path for PC^2 to work. Handout one for setting path. Handout two for setting path.
   

• Other files:

  • PC^2 Users Guide

  • Dry run problem

  • Dry run data file

  • Dry run expected output

  • Dry run solution
     

• Individual awards from the written test for 1st through 6th, large school division (4A - 5A), 1st through third, small school division (1A - 3A).
  Team awards for 1st through 3rd large school, 1st and 2nd, small school.

Schedule of Events with locations:

• 7:30  - 9:00am     Check in. outside UTC 2.112A

• 9:00  - 10:30am    UTCS Presentation by Professor Kristen Grauman (UTC 2.112A)

• 10:30 - 11:30am   Written Test (UTC 2.112A)

• 11:30 - Noon        Facebook Company Presentation, Sarah White (UTC 2.112A)

• Noon  - 1:30 pm   Lunch, lots of restaurants west of campus on Guadalupe. The UT Co-op is also on  Guadalupe.

• 1:30  - 2:30pm     Computer Set Up and Dry Run (UTC 4.102, UTC 4.104, UTC, 4.132)

• 2:30  - 4:30pm     Programming Contest (UTC 4.102, UTC 4.104, UTC, 4.132,
                            Coaches' lounge Welch UTC 4.110)
                            CSTA Central Texas Chapter Meeting 4th floor UTC

• 4:30  - 5:30pm     Appeals, Verification, Compile Final Scores
                            (UTC 4.102, UTC 4.104, UTC, 4.132)

• 5:30pm                Awards (UTC 2.112A)

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