Directions
Once you arrive on campus proceed to L. k. Downing Hall located at
2300 Sixth St. NW, Washington, DC 20059.
From Maryland - Traveling West
Take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (I-295) to New York Avenue (R-50). Take New York Avenue to Florida Avenue and turn right. Take Florida Avenue to Georgia Avenue and turn right. Take Georgia Avenue to Howard Place (approximately four blocks) and turn right. You are now on the campus of
Howard University.
From Maryland - Traveling South
Take I-95 to I-495 (Silver Spring). Take I-495 to Georgia Avenue (Silver Spring). Take Georgia Avenue to Howard Place (approximately seven miles). Turn left. You are now on the campus of Howard University.
From Maryland - Traveling North
Following I-295 North across the 11th Street Bridge. Go through tunnel (I-395 North) to the 3rd Street Tunnel. Take the 3rd Street Tunnel to Massachusetts Avenue exit. (You will actually be on New Jersey Avenue not Massachusetts Avenue.) Take New Jersey Avenue to Florida Avenue and turn left. Take Florida Avenue to Georgia Avenue (approximately three blocks) and turn right. Take Georgia Avenue to Howard Place (approximately four blocks) and turn right. You are now on the campus of Howard University.
From Virginia - Traveling East
Follow Shirley Highway (I-395) East through the 3rd Street Tunnel (I-395 North) to the Massachusetts Avenue exit. (You will actually be on New Jersey Avenue not Massachusetts Avenue.) Take New Jersey Avenue to Florida Avenue and turn left. Take Florida Avenue to Georgia Avenue (approximately three blocks) and turn right. Take Georgia Avenue to Howard Place (approximately four blocks) and turn right. You are now on the Campus of Howard University.
OR
Take I-66 East across the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge to Constitution Avenue. Take Constitution Avenue (23rd Street is at the end of the bridge) to 7th Street and turn left. (At Florida Avenue, 7th Street becomes Georgia Avenue.). Take Georgia Avenue to Howard Place (approximately four blocks) and turn right. You are now on the campus of Howard University.
From Virginia - Traveling North
Take I-95 to I-395 to the 12th Street exit. Turn right onto Constitution Avenue. Follow Constitution Avenue to 7th Street and turn left. Follow 7th Street (at Florida Avenue, 7th street becomes Georgia Avenue) to Howard Place (approximately four blocks from Florida Avenue) and turn right. You are now on the campus of Howard University.
From Shaw-Howard Univ. Metro Station - Green Line 
Exit the Shaw-Howard U. Metro station from the 7th Street/Georgia Avenue entrance, turn right/north and proceed approximately six blocks until you have reached the main campus of Howard University.
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Breakfast, registration, and other ceremonies will take place in L. K. Downing Hall Room 2019. The contest itself will be held in L. K. Downing Hall, Room 2113. Please utilize the interactive campus map, found here. We suggest you park in the Mackey building parking lot on the north side of L. K. Downing Hall. To zoom in on the event location click on the map marked with a 
"C".
Contest Environment
You will be be given a Linux workstation with gcc 4.2 and g++ 4.2 from the GNU Compiler Collection, Sun's Java 2 Development Kit 1.7.0, Eclipse 3.2, and the vim, nano, scite, and emacs editors. Free printing will be available!
The contest environment will be Linux with the X Window System. Standard Unix editors and tools will be available.
The contest will utilize the PC2 competition system.
Old Questions
We've made available questions from previous years:
Languages
Contestests must program in C, C++, or Java. For C, contestants can make use of functions in the standard C library and the math library. Contestants using C++ may make use of the Standard Template Libraries. Java contestants will have access to the standard Java libraries.
Materials
Contestants are allowed to bring any printed material they wish, including any books and printed code samples. Note that this specifically excludes any and all electronic formats or readers.
