Competition Problem Solving

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This course challenges students in real-world problem solving and prepares for the prestigious Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC). What is a good problem solving? It can be one that delivers the correct result. What is then a good competition problem solving? It is one that delivers the correct result in the expected amount of computation time. While there are a few classic problem-solving approaches, students in this course will learn to devise techniques in a deeper manner because most real-world problems command new approaches instead of the mere application of classic ones. Such skill will be of great importance for future advancement in both the industry as well as the academics.