Schedule
The schedule of events will be as follows:
| Time | Activity |
|---|
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration, Badges, T-Shirts, Optional Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:30 | Welcome, introduction, rules, orientation |
| 9:30-10:30 | Practice Problem |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lunch |
| 12:00-17:00 | Competition |
| 17:00-18:00 | Dinner |
| 18:00 | Announce Results |
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.
View Washington area Metro Subway Map
Map
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 1.6.0, 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
Contestants 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.
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