====== Weekly Contest for October 14-15, 2010 ======

The contest this week is a **team contest**.  One workstation per team.  Divide up the problems, one per person.  Solve, fight over workstation, collaborate on algorithms, code reviews, and debugging.

The contest server is on pc2.cs.purdue.edu.  From a departmental UNIX machine, use this command to get started...

   % (cd /homes/jtk/pc2; bin/pc2team)

===== Teams =====

  * Team 1: Ben, Hearson, Winthan
  * Team 2: Derek, Yuedong
  * Team 3: Emily, John L
  * Team 4: Abram, John B, Tim
  * Team 5: Alex, Eric, Dylan
===== Problems =====

  * A: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110901&format=html|Bicoloring]]
  * B: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=111003&format=html|Fire Station]]
  * C: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=111101&format=html|Is Bigger Smarter?]]
  * D: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=111105&format=html|Cutting Sticks]]

**Notes:**

  * A: Recursive walk of the graph will do.  Use a marker to keep track of nodes you've already visited.
  * B: Tricky.  Use Dijkstra's (or possibly Floyd's) algorithm multiple times.
  * C: Dynamic programming.  Sort and find recurrence.  (Actually, simple iteration works, too.)
  * D: Dynamic programming.  Use recursive divide and conquer trying each possible initial slice in turn.