Some Contest Problems I Designed:

[Available at ACM Valladolid Problem Set Archive with Online Judge]

 

15 of these problems (* marked) are included in the following book:

 

Programming Challenges

Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual

 

            by Steven Skiena & Miguel Revilla

 

published under the series Texts in Computer Science from Springer Verlag.

 

 

The book is also available in Russian, Polish and Korean translations.

 

Click here to see live summary statistics for all my problems available at ACM UVA Online Judge.


1.           The Monocycle (stats) *

2.           Audiophobia (stats)

3.           Hartals (stats) *

4.           Tower of Cubes (stats) *

5.           Inviting Politicians (stats)

6.           Envelopes (stats)

7.           The Necklace (stats) *

8.           Useless Tile Packers (stats)

9.           The Twin Towers (stats)

10.       Playing with Wheels (stats) *

11.       The Treasure Hunt (stats)

12.       Distinct Subsequences (stats) *

13.       Bob Laptop Woolmer and Eddie Desktop Barlow (stats)

14.       Constrained Exchange Sort (stats)

15.       Take the Land (stats)

16.       Airlines (stats) *

17.       The Bumpy Robot (stats)

18.       The Art Gallery (stats)

19.       The Most Distant State (stats)

20.       Test the Rods (stats)

21.       Trees on My Island (stats) *

22.       Repackaging (stats) *

23.       Marbles (stats) *

24.       The Problem with the Problem Setter (stats) *

25.       The Color Game (stats)

26.       The Tourist Guide (stats) *

27.       The Lonesome Cargo Distributor (stats)

28.       Smallest Bounding Rectangle (stats)

29.       Rope Crisis in Ropeland! (stats) *

30.       Bishops (stats) *

31.       Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! (stats)

32.       Asterix and Obelix (stats)

33.       The Grand Dinner (stats) *

34.       Series-Parallel Networks (stats)

35.       The Great Divide (stats)