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Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science Series Editor Ian Mackie Dept of - photo 1
Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Series Editor
Ian Mackie
Dept of Infomatics, Univ of Sussex, Palaiseau CX, France
Advisory Editors
Samson Abramsky
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Chris Hankin
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Dexter C. Kozen
Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Andrew Pitts
William Gates Bldg., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hanne Riis Nielson
Dept. Informatics Bldg. 305, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Steven S Skiena
Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Iain Stewart
Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom

Series editor

Ian Mackie

Advisory Board

Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, London, UK

Dexter C. Kozen, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Hanne Riis Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Steven S. Skiena, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

Iain Stewart, University of Durham, Durham, UK

Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTiCS) delivers high-quality instructional content for undergraduates studying in all areas of computing and information science. From core foundational and theoretical material to final-year topics and applications, UTiCS books take a fresh, concise, and modern approach and are ideal for self-study or for a one- or two-semester course. The texts are all authored by established experts in their fields, reviewed by an international advisory board, and contain numerous examples and problems. Many include fully worked solutions.

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Antti Laaksonen
Guide to Competitive Programming Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests
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Antti Laaksonen
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
ISSN 1863-7310 e-ISSN 2197-1781
Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
ISBN 978-3-319-72546-8 e-ISBN 978-3-319-72547-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72547-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960923
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Preface

The purpose of this book is to give you a comprehensive introduction to modern competitive programming. It is assumed that you already know the basics of programming, but previous background in algorithm design or programming contests is not necessary. Since the book covers a wide range of topics of various difficulty, it suits both for beginners and more experienced readers.

Programming contests already have a quite long history. The International Collegiate Programming Contest for university students was started during the 1970s, and the first International Olympiad in Informatics for secondary school students was organized in 1989. Both competitions are now established events with a large number of participants from all around the world.

Today, competitive programming is more popular than ever. The Internet has played a significant role in this progress. There is now an active online community of competitive programmers, and many contests are organized every week. At the same time, the difficulty of contests is increasing. Techniques that only the very best participants mastered some years ago are now standard tools known by a large number of people.

Competitive programming has its roots in the scientific study of algorithms. However, while a computer scientist writes a proof to show that their algorithm works, a competitive programmer implements their algorithm and submits it to a contest system. Then, the algorithm is tested using a set of test cases, and if it passes all of them, it is accepted. This is an essential element in competitive programming, because it provides a way to automatically get strong evidence that an algorithm works. In fact, competitive programming has proved to be an excellent way to learn algorithms, because it encourages to design algorithms that really work, instead of sketching ideas that may work or not.

Another benefit of competitive programming is that contest problems require thinking . In particular, there are no spoilers in problem statements. This is actually a severe problem in many algorithms courses. You are given a nice problem to solve, but then the last sentence says, for example: Hint : modify Dijkstras algorithm to solve the problem. After reading this, there is not much thinking needed, because you already know how to solve the problem. This never happens in competitive programming. Instead, you have a full set of tools available, and you have to figure out yourself which of them to use.

Solving competitive programming problems also improves ones programming and debugging skills. Typically, a solution is awarded points only if it correctly solves all test cases, so a successful competitive programmer has to be able to implement programs that do not have bugs. This is a valuable skill in software engineering, and it is not a coincidence that IT companies are interested in people who have background in competitive programming.

It takes a long time to become a good competitive programmer, but it is also an opportunity to learn a lot. You can be sure that you will get a good general understanding of algorithms if you spend time reading the book, solving problems, and taking part in contests.

If you have any feedback, I would like to hear it! You can always send me a message to ahslaaks@cs.helsinki.fi.

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