TUMjudge as a Training Platform

With the beginning of the summer term we want to give students who want to prepare for ACM ICPC or other programming contests a training platform. All problems we wrote and collected from several contests are now available for free at TUMjudge contest. They have the same format and similar input/output specifications to enable you to actually solve problems instead of setting up development environments. If you want to be well-prepared for the GCPC and other programming contests TUMjudge is your place to go.

There you can find two new types of contests:

• Course Problems: Problems that we wrote for our courses at TUM. Their difficulty is given by the color of the balloon: Green is easy, yellow is medium and red is hard. These problems will be used in courses, thus please do not any put solutions or hints online.
• Problem Collection: Problems that we imported from numerous online contests. These problems are open for discussion and for many of them you can find solutions and test data online.

For both types of contests we broke the problems down into batches of ten problems each. The problems do not have a particular order.

To allow for better discussion of the problems and help in case of difficulties we also started a discussion platform at ICPC@TUM Discuss. You can login there using your regular TUMjudge account. This discussion platform is for

• help with problems from the problem collection,
• lists of possible training sessions with the problems at TUMjudge,
• articles explaining algorithms and solutions to contest problems,
• discussion about news from our website,
• discussion about contests that we host,
• team creation for our contests, and
• discussion about course related information.

Please use this platform frequently to develop a vivid community. Remember that we do not want to share information about the course problems. We are looking forward to meeting you on our discussion platform and hope that you find our problem collection useful.