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The 19th Annual St. Bonaventure Univerity High School Programming Contest will be held on Friday, March 2, 2007. Registration for the contest, which will be limited to thirty teams, is now open. Last year's champion, Union-Endicott High School, has already indicated that it will return to defend its title."We selected the date of March 2 for the contest after consulting with area high school team advisors," said Dr. Steven K. Andrianoff, Associate Professor of Computer Science and contest director. "The date should enable us to host a full field of teams."
A team consists of no more than four students from the same high school. Students may only program in C++ or Java. Each team receives the same collection of 6-8 problems. Scoring is based on how quickly each team submits correct solutions.
The contest is conducted in computer laboratories located on campus. All the laboratories contain Windows XP-based personal computers that are linked by a campus-wide local area network. Teams use the network to submit their programs.
The Eclipse development environment is used for both Java and C++. The programming environment is pre-configured with the projects for the problems so that minimal knowledge of the Eclipse environment is required of the student programmers.
Each team must be accompanied by a faculty advisor from their school. St. Bonaventure University covers the cost of all materials and meals. The only cost to participating schools is transportation to and from the campus. Participation is restricted to approximately 35 teams and participants are selected on a first-come, first-served basis.
Information about the contest, including previous questions, contest rules, and previous results, are available at the contest web site. Please direct specific questions to contest director Andrianoff.
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