CIS Infinity - Speed Programming

Side note

2005-05-09T18:35:00.000+05:00

I'd like to mention one important fact here. The questions that we gave in the competition were not same for all the teams. Every year received one special problem according to their university course coverage. 5/6 were same for all the teams.

Results!

2005-05-09T18:16:00.000+05:00

Some very close calls! Second year stands out of the out crowd with a massive 5/6 score! Way to go Second year guys! Please refer to the team listing post for team information.

Rank	Name	Solved	Time
1	team6	5	591
2	team11	4	341
3	team13	3	257
4	team9	3	289
5	team14	3	329
6	team3	3	366
7	team4	3	416
8	team5	2	250
9	team8	2	255
10	team12	1	38
11	team2	1	82
12	team7	1	142

Competition Finale!

2005-05-09T16:53:00.000+05:00

We had an immense competition today! It started at about 11:30AM and ended at 2:45PM. 14 teams committed for the competition and they all showed up right on schedule! I'll post the listing of scores in the next post. The competition went very smooth, although we had quirks but nothing which would cause delay or any mayhem :)! The department Chairman visited the lab at noon and was quite pleased with the arrangements we had done. The teachers were extremely helpful in every regard! Literally the entire lab, that is, the computers and the network were at our disposal! We'd like to mention the name of teachers who were extremely helpful throughout the competition (in no particular order):

Sir Saqib Ilyas (Competition Judge)

Sir Farhan (Competition Judge)

Miss Maria Wahab (Competition Judge)

Miss Anita Ali

Miss Aimen

Miss Hina

Miss Humera Noor

Sir Mustafa Khan

Next, I'd like to list down the students in the organization team (in no particular order):

Syed Mehroz Alam (Batch 2002-2003)

Muhammad Usman Ghani (Batch 2002-2003)

Faisal Nasim (Batch 2002-2003)

Raza Abbas (Batch 2002-2003)

Sarfaraz Soomro (Batch 2003-2004)

Special thanks to Asim Meer for his help during invigilation. We'll get the pictures online very soon. We'd also like to extend our sincere thanks to the teams who participated in the competition and wish them best of luck in their future competitions and endeavours.

Giveaways from NED.NET and INETA

2005-05-08T20:59:00.000+05:00

Good news! Top three teams will each receive one VS.NET 2005 Whidbey Beta 1 DVD!

NED.NET and INETA are sponsoring this prize.

Some more rules

2005-05-06T07:34:00.000+05:00

No flash disks, floppies or any other storage media will be allowed

Internet will be disabled during the competition

Printed/handwritten notes/lectures are not allowed

Cell-phones will need to be switched off during the competition

Ready to Rock!

2005-05-05T11:44:00.000+05:00

Student Name	Year	Sec	Roll	Batch	TeamID
Sohaib Mahtab	FE	B	113	2004-2005	team1
Abshar Rajput	FE	B	97	2004-2005	team1
Arsalan Khan	FE	B	118	2004-2005	team1
M. Shoaib Sheikh	SE	B	97	2003-2004	team2
Saad Khurram	SE	B	107	2003-2004	team2
M. Hammad Ayaz	SE	B	26	2003-2004	team2
Murk Gopi Chand	SE	B	7	2003-2004	team3
Preeya Rawlani	SE	B	88	2003-2004	team3
Umair Rabbani	SE	B	36	2003-2004	team3
Mazhar Salman Kazi	SE	A	91	2003-2004	team4
M. Zeeshan Rokeria	SE	A	135	2003-2004	team4
Farah Zehra	SE	A	81	2003-2004	team4
Shayan Ahmed Malik	SE	A	92	2003-2004	team5
Irbaz Haider Hashmi	SE	A	110	2003-2004	team5
Ariba Sahar	SE	A	53	2003-2004	team5
Noman Shaukat	SE	B	23	2003-2004	team6
Aneeq Hasmi	SE	B	40	2003-2004	team6
Ahmed Minhas	SE	B	8	2003-2004	team6
Sajjad Zaheer	TE	A	63	2002-2003	team7
Yasir Rafiq	TE	A	77	2002-2003	team7
Salman Younus	TE	A	82	2002-2003	team7
Nasir Jamal	TE	B	33	2002-2003	team8
Ovais Ahmed	TE	B	17	2002-2003	team8
Noman Ul Haq	TE	B	21	2002-2003	team8
Fahad Majeed	TE	B	23	2002-2003	team9
Muhammad Yahya	TE	A	80	2002-2003	team9
Sanjeev Kumar	TE	A	81	2002-2003	team9
Sara Tariq Ansari	TE	A	116	2002-2003	team10
Sana Fahim	TE	A	113	2002-2003	team10
Afshan Aslam	TE	A	146	2002-2003	team10
Tanveer Badar	TE	A	78	2002-2003	team11
Arsalan Ahmed	TE	A	83	2002-2003	team11
Ahsan Ahmed Khan	TE	A	3	2002-2003	team11
Zohaib Mahtab	BE	B	24	2001-2002	team12
Rehman Ahmed Khan	BE	B	20	2001-2002	team12
Muhammed Asif	BE	B	1	2001-2002	team12
Muhammad Inam-ul-Haq	BE	B	41	2001-2002	team13
Hammad-ul-Hasnain	BE	B	46	2001-2002	team13
Hidayatullah	BE	B	80	2001-2002	team13
M. Sajid Afzal	SE	B	41	2003-2004	team14
M. Majid Afzal	SE	B	47	2003-2004	team14
Umair Zafar	SE	B	42	2003-2004	team14

Thanks!

2005-05-01T11:55:00.000+05:00

The CIS Infinity team is happy to announce the inclusion of a new member Sarfaraz Soomro from Second Year CIS (Batch 2003-2004) in our organization team!

On behalf of CIS Infinity team, I'd like to thank Mr. Rajesh Kumar (Batch 2000-2001 graduate and a MENSIAN!) for taking time out of busy schedule to help us with a lot of things and providing his valuable input on several occassions.

More information

2005-04-21T20:59:00.000+05:00

You can keep reference books with yourself during the competition. For example, you can refer to the book for the syntax of filing. Algorithm books will not be allowed.

The only requirement to get a problem right is that you solve the problem correctly. Code clarity, neatness, variable naming have no points at all!

The clock won't stop ticking! You'll get a penalty for every minute that passes, the idea is to get as less penalty as possible; which is, of course, just a fancy way of saying that you need to work out the problems as quickly as possible!

The team that solves the most questions will be the winner, penalty does not count if the number of questions solved is higher

You do not need to remember algorithms for the competition, the only thing you need to practice is your skills on the keyboard, I guess :)

Come with a fresh brain on May 9th. A fresh and rested brain makes all the difference!

We recommend that you study ArrayList in C# and if you're doing it in C++, make sure you have command over vector<> container to build up dynamic arrays.

If the problem involves dynamic arrays, you're adviced to use a standard library instead of making elementary linked lists yourself

It won't be tough as it sounds!

Best of luck!

Faisal

Sample Problem - 1

2005-04-07T17:57:00.000+05:00

[Taken from the internet]

Sample Problem #1

Description:

You are given a limited number of coins of various denominations, and a certain amount. You are to compute how many ways there are to pick the coins to add up to that amount. For example, given 12 coins of 1-cent value, 2 coins of 5-cent value and 3 coins of 10-cent value, and an amount of 15 cents, there are 4 combinations:

2 5-cents coins and 5 1-cent coins
1 5-cents coins and 10 1-cent coins
1 10-cent coins and 1 5-cent coin
1 10-cent coins and 5 1-cents coins

The answer therefore should be 4.

Input:

The first line of the input file consists of a single positive integer indicating the number of different coin denominations. The next line of the input file consists of a single positive integer representing the total amount. The remaining lines of the input file each consist of a pair of positive integer representing a coin denomination followed by the number of coins of that denomination available. All numbers are in the range of [1, 100].

The sample input and output are shown below.

Sample input:

3

15

1 12

5 2

10 3

Sample output:

Programming Language options

2005-04-07T17:17:00.000+05:00

Following is a tentative list of languages you can use to code the problems in:

C/C++ (Turbo C++/Borland C++)

Visual C++

Java

Any questions or suggestions can be sent to cisinfinity@gmail.com

Programming Tips

2005-04-06T19:57:00.000+05:00

You will need to focus on following programming areas for the competition:

Good problem solving skills. An intuition for programming.

Good grasp on recursion.

Well versed in basic number theory. The things most of the people know at this stage are suffcient

Arrays. And their novel uses.

String Manipulation.

Filing. Ability to read multiple data sets from a text file and to
separate data items on a single line. This is very necessary as
problem inputs must be read from files.

NOTE: The last point is extremely important as all questions would require you to read input from the file. It will become more apparent when we post a sample question.

CIS Infinity Speed Programming 2005

2005-04-06T19:42:00.000+05:00

CIS Infinity is the CIS Speed Programming competition happening for the first time in the history of CIS department of NED University, organized by Batch 2002-2003 students. The event is scheduled to happen on May 9, 2005 in the CIS department with a total 16 teams participating from each batch. Details of competition will be posted on this blog very soon. Please stop-by to see sample questions and tips for the competition! See you on May 9th.

Date: May 9, 2005
Venue: CIS Department, NED

Faisal