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Student Notes for Competing Using PC^2

One time only: copy /homes/cs390cp/pc2-9.1.6/pc2v9.ini to your local directory somewhere (e.g., ~/pc2).
Change into the directory where your pc2v9.ini file is located.
Launch pc2: /homes/cs390cp/pc2-9.1.6/bin/pc2team &

Administrator Reminder Notes for Running Programming Competitions with PC^2

Login to cs390cp@pc.cs.purdue.edu
cd pc2-9.1.6 (assumes pc2 install here)
bin/pc2server &
Login as site1/site1; choose contest password
bin/pc2admin &
Login as administrator1/administrator1
Accounts tab, Generate accounts (1 judge, x teams, 1 scoreboard)
Languages tab, Add, Auto Populate with Java and GNU C++, possibly GNU C
Problems tab, Add
1. Problem name
2. Problem Requires Input Data, Stdin, Input Data File
3. Judges have Provided Answer File
4. Judging Type tab: Computer judging
5. Validator tab: Use PC^2 validator with option “1 - diff”
Auto judge tab
1. Select judge1, Edit
2. Shift-select all problems, Enable Auto Judging, Update
Times tab
1. Select site1, Edit
2. Set/update remaining, elapsed, and length times
3. Start ALL
bin/pc2judge &
1. Login as judge1/judge1
bin/pc2board &
1. Login as scoreboard1/scoreboard1
firefox html/summary.html