Competition Programming and Problem Solving (15-295)

Spring 2012

Wednesday 6:30-9:20, Wean 5421

You can also obtain an additional 3 credits by performing well in either Topcoder or CodeForces contests via 15-395. Details on this can be discussed in class.

Instructors
Danny Sleator
Office: Gates 8113
E-mail: sleator -at- cs
Phone: (412) 268-7563
    Richard Peng
Office: Hillman 7713
E-mail: yangp -at- cs
Phone: (412) 992-0090

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/15-295

Grading Policy

You may take this course for 0, 3, 6, 9 or 12 units. Your grade in this class is a decided using the number of classes that you attended, and the number of CodeForces and TopCoder problems that you solve during a contest.

If you attended X classes, solved Y CodeForces and Z TopCoder problems, your numerical grade is X+2Y+3Z. Your units/grade is then determined by the following ranges: Scores are tracked using this Google Doc. Please verify and let us know of discrepancies

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