**CodeCon: S2023 TU**
This page contains details about the 2023 April 15 CodeCon programming contest.
This contest is for Taylor University students only and will take place in Euler 103, 201, 217, and 218.
There are 3 team divisions.
- Non-CSE: TU students not majoring in CSE degree
- Beginner: TU students who haven't taken COS 200+
- Advanced: All TU students
All members create a kattis account with their Taylor email and then register.
# Results
Here are the results of the competition!
## Non-CSE Division
 
| Rank | Solved | Points | Team Name | Members |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- | :--- |
| 1 | 7 | 649 | The Cold Never Bothers Us Anyway | Kristine Lee
MaryGrace Osborn
Micah Pinson |
| 2 | 3 | 468 | The Code Warriors | Charles H Johnson III
Connor Murray
Luke Manges |
See more details on the [Kattis Standings Page](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/standings).
The questions for the Non-CSE Division were:
1. [Death Knight Hero](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/deathknight)
2. [Tarifa](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/tarifa)
3. [Quality-Adjusted Life-Year](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/qaly)
4. [Vacuumba](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/vacuumba)
5. [Rating Problems](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/ratingproblems)
6. [Spavanac](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/spavanac)
7. [Weak Vertices](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/weakvertices)
8. [Pot](https://open.kattis.com/contests/cs422d/problems/pot)
## Beginner Division
  
| Rank | Solved | Points | Team Name | Members |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- | :--- |
| 1 | 6 | 670 | Battlres | Emily Mannlein
Jude Heberlein
Linus Denning |
| 2 | 5 | 366 | Swallowites | Joshua Brown
Josiah Kerr |
| 3 | 3 | 252 | Prof B | Brayden Potoski
Manzi Dave Rugari
Josh Ellman |
| 4 | 3 | 531 | Two Mustketeers | Carter McHugh
Luke Stone |
| 5 | 2 | 183 | The solution is Among Us | Jack Rainey
Eynkyu Lee |
See more details on the [Kattis Standings Page](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/standings).
The questions for the Beginner Division were:
1. [Robot Protection](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/robotprotection)
2. [Number Fun](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/numberfun)
3. [Different Distances](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/differentdistances)
4. [Mean Words](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/meanwords)
5. [Turtle Master](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/turtlemaster)
6. [Counting Triangles](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/countingtriangles)
7. [Event Planning](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/eventplanning)
8. [Jury Jeopardy](https://open.kattis.com/contests/dmnjrw/problems/juryjeopardy)
## Advanced Division
  
| Rank | Solved | Points | Team Name | Members |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- | :--- |
| 1 | 1 | 68 | seg_fault | Lance VanErmen
Nathan Erickson
Noah Gegner |
| 2 | 1 | 92 | Daynah | Hannah Hartong
Dayne Pefley |
| 3 | 1 | 152 | closedAI | Zach Brandon
Ethan Hoyt
Carl Hynson |
| 4 | 1 | 210 | Just Getting Started | Elisha Muwanguzi
Sterling Davis
Ethan Reddy |
See more details on the [Kattis Standings Page](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/standings).
The questions for the Advanced Division were:
1. [Flip Five](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/flipfive)
2. [Patchwork](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/patchwork)
3. [Walkway](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/walkway)
4. [Find my Family](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/findmyfamily)
5. [Raising the Bar](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/raisingthebar)
6. [Flygskam](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/flygskam)
7. [The End of the World](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/endoftheworld)
8. [UnDetected](https://open.kattis.com/contests/aezu47/problems/undetected)
# Images
# Timeline
The following are dates and times to keep in mind.
## Practice Session
The department will hold a practice session Thursday, April 13, 7–9pm in Euler 217.
There you can learn some general strategies and practice some contest-like problems.
See the [Programming Contest Strategies document](https://gfx.cse.taylor.edu/events/programming-contest) for strategies and practice problems and the [Open Kattis Tutorial page](https://open.kattis.com/help) for a list of accepted languages and tips on usage (more printable form [here](https://codecon.cse.taylor.edu/kattis-help/)).
## Competition Day
The following is the schedule for Saturday, 2023 April 1.
| | | |
| ---: | :--- | :--- |
| 10:00 am | Introduction | Euler 201 |
| 10:30 am | Practice Session | Euler 201 |
| 12:00 pm | Break for lunch | (on your own) |
| 1:00 pm | Competition Begins | Euler 201 |
| 5:00 pm | Competition Ends | Euler 201 |
| 5:15 pm | Ceremony | Euler 201 |
During the Introduction phase, we will cover the contest rules, the formal of the contest, and try some practice problems.
At noon, we will break for lunch (eat on your own), but every team needs to be back by 1pm when the competition begins!
All teams have 4hrs total or until 5pm, whichever is first, to finish as many of the problems as possible.
# Competition Details
Below are details about the competition.
## Contest Rules
- Three Divisions: Non-CSE, Beginner, Advanced
- The Non-CSE division is only for students who are not majoring in a Computer Science or Engineering degree (i.e., CS, CSDM, CCY, CEN).
- No student who has taken a COS 200+ course may participate in the Beginner division.
- Any student may be in the Advanced division.
- Teams consist of either 2 or 3 current Taylor University students
- No solo teams. No teams of 4 or more.
- Each team may use exactly one workstation with one keyboard and one mouse
- Teams can submit solutions using any of the languages listed in the Languages section below at any time during the competition
- Only resources allowed:
- Printed references (ex: books)
- No "cheat sheets" will be allowed
- Only certain websites
- C++: [cppreference](https://en.cppreference.com/w/), [cplusplus](https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/)
- Haskell: [documentation](https://www.haskell.org/documentation/)
- Java: [docs.oracle.com](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/overview-summary.html)
- Prolog: [reference manual](https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=manual)
- Python 3: [Python 3.8 Documentation](https://docs.python.org/3.8/)
- This site and the programming contest server site
- **IMPORTANT:** General search engine searches (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, AltaVista, AOL, Ask Jeeves, etc.), developer debugging sites (StackOverflow, etc.), AI-assisted tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, TabNine, etc.), and other online resources will _**NOT**_ be allowed during the competition
- Scratch paper and pencils will be provided
- No phone-usage is allowed during the competition
## Problems and Judging
All teams (regardless of division) will be given 6–9 problems to solve in a 4 hour block of time.
Each problem will consist of a problem story, the specifications for the input, the specifications for the output, runtime and memory constraints for the problem, and at least one sample input and corresponding output.
Teams can submit solutions to problems in any order, and they are allowed to resubmit solutions until success.
A problem is considered solved if the team submits a program which can correctly pass all of the (hidden) tests within the runtime and memory constraints.
Although teams can submit solutions as often as they choose, teams are strongly encouraged to test their code on the workstation prior to submission, because each incorrect submission incurs a time penalty (see details in next paragraph).
Teams are ranked based on the number of problems solved correctly, breaking any ties with penalties.
Penalties are sum of time + 20 minutes for each wrong submission for all _solved_ problems.
This means that if several teams solved all of the problems, the team with the smallest sum of time and fewest number of wrong submissions would be declared the winning team.
## Languages
The programming contest server can accept solutions in many different languages.
Teams are allowed to submit solutions to problems using any of the accepted languages.
!!! WARNING
Although there are many possible languages, participants will be limited to the references sites listed above.
Teams are encouraged to bring printed reference materials.
!!! NOTE
If the language supports an exit code, any non-zero exit code will be interpreted as a Run Time Error
See [Open Kattis Tutorial page](https://open.kattis.com/help) for details on which languages are accepted, which compiler / runtime environment will be used, what compiler / runtime flags will be passed, which libraries are allow, etc.