Spring 2026 COP 4516: Contest Problem Solving

Name	Location	Office Hours
Arup Guha	HEC-240	Arup's OH
Jackson Simoneau	HEC-202	F 1-3 pm

Week	Contest	Lecture Notes	Sample Code	Practice Problem(s)	Contest Archive
1	Kattis Ind/Use of Lang API	Use of Contest Sites Java API C++ API		Practice API
2	Team Dynamics, Codeforces, USACO	Team Contests
3	Team-1	Brute Force	bruteforce.c bruteforce.java	Practice Problems
4	Team-2	Dynamic Programming #1	fib.java LCS.java combo.java knapsack.java knapsack.in lis.java lis.in	Practice Problems
5	Team-3	Dynamic Programming #2	editd.java mcm.java mcm.in mcm.out	Practice Problems
6	Team-4	Binary Search Applications		Practice Problems
7	Team-5	Geometry-2D(my notes) Geometry-2D(Nadeem's Notes) Geometry-2D(UCF Team Notes) Geometry-2D(USACO Notes)	Test2DGeo.java convexhull.java	Practice Problems
8	Team Final Contest	MCSS & Cumulative Frequency BITs	cumfreq.java mcss.java bit.java	C.F. Problems BIT Problems
9	Number Theory	Lec Notes Here		Practice Problems TBA	No Contest
10	Ind-1	Graphs I	dfsbfs.java dfsbfs.cpp graph01.in graph02.in peg.java peg2.java	Practice Problems
11	Ind-2	Graphs II	prims.java djset.java kruskals.java Floyd.java dijkstras.java bellmanford.java	Practice Problems
12	Ind-3	Network Flow	Ford Fulkerson(no comments) Ford Fulkerson C++ Ford Fulkerson Python FordFulkerson.java EdmundsKarp.java Dinic's(no comments) Dinic.java	Practice Problems
13	ChatGPT-1	Trees!	PrintPostOrder.c CashExercise.c	Practice Problems
14	ChatGPT-2	Tries	3 Problem Descriptions countwords.c countprefixes.c maxprefix.c	Practice Problems
15	Ind Final

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