Contest 1 will take place from Friday 17th September 6:00 PM AEST to Sunday 19th September 6:00 PM AEST. Please make sure you expand this post and read the entire contents.

You can participate for the entire 48 hour duration of the contest.

There are five problems, each worth 100 points. The problems are sorted in approximate order of difficulty.

You can access the contest here using credentials emailed to your UNSW email address yesterday from the cs4128 class account. Please contact me ASAP if you did not receive these credentials.

Please keep in mind that these contests are to be attempted individually, with no collaboration. Do not share or discuss these problems with anyone until all students have completed the contest (Sunday 6pm). All submissions will be compared pairwise with plagiarism detection software, and serious penalties will be applied, particularly in the case of repeat offences. Do not copy ideas or code from others, and do not use a publicly accessible repository or allow anyone to see your code.

Any questions during the contest should be submitted as a clarification request in DOMjudge, instead of posting to Ed or any other platform. Should you have difficulty logging in to DOMjudge, please contact me by email.

It is unfortunately difficult to schedule these assessments without clashes with your other classes, and without taking up too much of our already limited class time. I understand that evenings and weekends are not ideal for everyone, so if you are not able to participate during the scheduled time, please contact me (Raveen) and I will be happy to make alternative arrangements for you.