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Never gonna give you up…

October 22nd, 2004 | Category: normal

I have gone off with my programming team to Melbourne, FL and the Florida Institute of Technology to the International Collegiate Programming Competition to represent UF.

I’ll be back really late Saturday night — wish me luck! Winning means a trip to Shanghai! Woohoo!

4 Comments so far

Tae October 22nd, 2004 3:09 pm

Good luck then.
Carmen October 23rd, 2004 9:39 am

Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
Tempest October 23rd, 2004 1:45 pm

You’re going to get Shanghaied for winning?  Geez…
Pug’s Place » Programming Contest Results October 30th, 2006 8:23 am

[...] This weekend was the culmination of several hundred hours of coding practice this semester: the southeast regional semifinal of the ACM international collegiate programming contest (see last year or the year before). Preparing UF’s teams for this contest has been a massive time drain for me since the semester started and has been a primary reason for not updating this blog much. So, results… While standings aren’t available on the contest website yet, UF’s top teams scored 5th and 9th. Our 5th place team was UF 127.0.0.1 solving 7 of the 10 problems in the 5 hour time period. My team, UF: A Series of Tubes, scored 9th overall solving 5 problems in the time allotted. UF Slinky+Escalator=InfiniteFun also did well, solving two problems officially while having nearly-complete solutions for several more as the time expired. [...]