Category Archives: Competitions

Announcing WASHU Hackfest 2013

Level 1: Learn to exploit computers — No Computer Experience Needed Level 2: Hacker Capture the Flag Level 3: Learn how to stop hackers   Where: Urbauer 218 When: Saturday, 2pm – 5pm 3/23/13   We take over the multi-million dollar ONL lab so we can use professional grade exploit deployment frameworks like metasploit, active scanners like [...]

Code and Cookies

The ACM will be hosting a special Code and Cookies session this Friday! We will be investigating the fascinating methods of Computational Backtracking. Don’t miss out on the warm cookies and cold milk from Dough to Door! When: Friday, March 1, 7:00 PM Where: Lopata 401 Computer Lab

Setting Up Your Workspace for Tips and Tricks Sessions

During our tips and tricks sessions, you will have the opportunity to code your own solutions to the exercises we solve as a group. Follow these instructions to set up your workspace. Open Eclipse, and go to the SVN Repository Exploring perspective. Add a new repository with the following URL: https://shell.cec.wustl.edu:8443/acm2013/svn/studio-###### Replace ###### with a [...]

Tips and Tricks Session 1

Tips and Tricks Session 1 will cover setting up your workspace for ICPC-like competitions, I/O in Java, and fundamental algebra and arithmetic problems. Here is the skeleton that you should use for all ICPC-type problems from now through the end of the semester: package _____; import java.io.*; import java.util.Scanner; /** * Problem ____: ________ */ [...]

First Poster

Here’s what alice came up with for the for our programming competitions. I’ve suggested that: I would mention that we’re giving away pizza and prizes in the bottom text. Also mention that the website’s new/work in progress. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some good pictures so that our home page looks less geeky. We [...]