NCPCNordic Collegiate Programming Contest
NCPC 2007 will be held the 6th of October, at many universities throughout the Nordic countries. If your school is not listed under contest sites, get your favourite professor to host the contest! NCPC 2006 was held the September 30th. 86 Teams from eight Nordic universities were competing. See the NCPC 2006 page for more information. Contests:
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a world-wide contest for students, with local and regional events, and a world final. The contest is about programming skills, problem solving and teamwork. In short terms, teams of up to three students try to solve as many programming problems as possible from a given problem set, using only one computer. See the problems from NCPC 2005 to get the general idea. You may use C, C++ or Java. The ICPC has grown to become very large. 5606 teams from 1737 universities competed in the contests which lead up to the World Finals in 2006. 83 teams from all over the world competed in this years finals, which were held in San Antonio this spring. Two Nordic teams, one from KTH and one from LUND, had qualified for the finals, and did very well. They ended up on a shared 19th place out of 83.
The event itself is organised in a very distributed manner. It is physically hosted at many participating universities and colleges. The same problemset is used at all sites. The scores are gathered electronically, and the result is simultaneous local, national and Nordic championships. See the Nordic results from the 2005 contest. The contest is suitable for students of almost all skill levels, from beginner to expert, as the problem set always has both easy and very difficult problems. There are also separate score tables for the local sites, national level and the entire Nordic contest. This means you can choose on which level you want to compare yourself. Since 1996, there has been a Swedish national championship (Svenskt Mästerskap i Programmering), and a Norwegian national Championship (Norgesmesterskap i programmering). There has been a Nordic championship since 2002. All the Nordic locations belong to the Northwestern European region in the ICPC system. This years Northwestern Europe Programming Contest (NWERC) will be held in Stockholm on November 12th-13th. Universities use the local/national/nordic event as a preliminary for this contest. The rules for the NCPC are the same as for the ICPC regional contests. In NCPC, you are allowed to bring any printed or handwritten material to the contest. No machine readable media or electronic equipment may be brought. Results for previous Nordic championships: 2002 2003 2004 2005,
Below there is a list of sites hosting the contest. If your university is listed, then simply register through the online registeration system before the deadline (will be announced later). If you want to participate but don't have a complete team of three please contact your local contest director so they can try to help you connect with other people without teams. If your university is not on the list, you should try to make them host the contest! Maybe you could find a professor teaching programming classes, and make him interested in arranging the contest! It is a great opportunity for inspiring students and showing that programming is fun. If no professor is interested, maybe you could get a PhD student or similar to help. If you cannot get a local contest, many of the existing sites let students from other schools compete there. Write an e-mail to the contact listed below.
We strive to make it as easy as possible for a university to join and hold a contest. Basically, all you need to do is reserve a computer room, download and install the contest software and invite the students. We have a NCPC-Site-HOWTO. If you want to hold a local contest at your university, please contact Fredrik Heintz (NCPC director).
Nordic competitions 2006
Northwestern European Regional Contest 2005Nordic competitions 2005
World finals 2005
Northwestern European Regional Contest 2004
Nordic competitions 2004
World finals 2004
Northwestern European Regional Contest 2003
Updated: 2007-05-07
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