High School Programming League 2008/2009

High School Programming League 2009/10 is over, remember to visit the site in September to take part in the next edition.

The competition is supported by Gdansk University of Technology

  

Contest news

2010-05-01 20:16:54 Final results. The winner is Vasiliy Mokin. Congratulations! by Łukasz Kuszner

Top 20 contestants in the High School Programming League 2009/2010 are:
1 Vasiliy Mokin Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
2 Jakub Pachocki III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland
3 Grzegorz Guśpiel V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland
4 Pavel Kunyavskiy Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
4 Sergei Fedorov Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia

Victor Sadkov, 7 Ivan Katanić, 8 Grzegorz Prusak, 9 Łukasz Solak, 10 Jano Hozza, 11 Jakub Sygnowski, 12 Marcin Skiba, 13 Sebastian Mizera, 14 Anna Piekarska, 15 Kamil Łukasz, 16 Igor Adamski, 17 Damir Ferizovic, 18 Krystian Zawistowski, 19 Dubinin Vyacheslav, 20 Karol Różycki, more...

Top 20 contestants in the High School Programming League 2009/2010 up to 17 category are:

Vasiliy Mokin, 2 Sergei Fedorov, 3 Pavel Kunyavskiy, 4 Victor Sadkov, 5 Ivan Katanić, 6 Dubinin Vyacheslav, 7 Alexandr Mokin, 7 Aleksander Kramarz, 7 Mateusz Kopeć, 10 Sebastian Nowak, 11 Wiktor Teleżyński, 12 Belogaev Andrew, 13 Tomasz Zakrzewski, 13 Adam Czapliński, 15 Andrzej Białokozowicz, 16 Łukasz Kędziorski, 17 Gerasimov Dmitry, 17 Filip Kowalski, 19 Daniel Ferizovic, 20 Michał Seweryn, more...

Top 5 schools in the High School Programming League 2009/2010 are:
1 Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
   (coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2 III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland
   (coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)
3 V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland
   (coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
4 I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Mickiewicza w Białymstoku, Poland
   (coach: Ireneusz Bujnowski)
5 VIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Katowicach, Poland
   (coach: Adam Respondek)

more...

EduGiants courses discount receive: Michał Krupski (painball), Jan Darowski (eltharan), Robert Kania (robus), Grzegorz Jagielski (feagroth), Janusz Kukla (jeykey), Krzysztof Wołoszyk (kris_12), Mateusz Kopeć (kopec), Piotr Jucha (kebilol), Marek Utracki (utracjusz), Grzegorz Krukiewicz-Gacek (gregg8), Damian Repke (repkos).

2010-04-28 16:57:46 IdeoneApi special contest results by Łukasz Kuszner
The solutions submitted to the (IdeoneAPI). Special contest sumbissions has been evaluated. The prizes receive:
First prize, 200$ Dawid Pachowski (dawidppp) and Patryk Tenderenda (gothuk), Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Ostrowi Mazowieckiej, project Online Programming Tools.
Second prize, 100$ Bartosz Kowalik (mytnik), VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Kielcach, project InfoBart.
Third prize, 50$ Jan Nielek (nielu), II LO im. gen. Wł. Andersa w Chojnicach, project NIID.

2010-04-28 13:43:30 Credits by Łukasz Kuszner

Thanks to honorary patrons: Wojciech Szczurek, PhD, the Mayor of Gdynia, Prezident of Gdansk University of Technology prof. Henryk Krawczyk and The Dean of the Faculty of ETI prof. Krzysztof Goczyła.

Thanks to: Polish Computing Olympiad, Indian Computing Olympiad, Japanese Olympiad in Informatics, Czech Mathematical Olympiad - Category P (Programming), Swiss Computing Olympiad, Australian Computer Programming Competition, New Zealand Olympiad in Informatics and Vietnam Olympiad in Informatics for recommendations.

Thanks to the contest sponsors: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdynia City, Talent Association, EduGiants, Wolftram Research, Hakin9 Magazine, Linux+ Magazine and Ivona.com.

Special thanks to: Honorary Board members: Marek Kubale, Leszek Gąsieniec, Richard Kralovic, Filip Wolski, Sergei Rogulenko and others who helped during the contest, specially: Adam Dzedzej, Yandry Pérez Clemente, Robert Gerbicz, Anna Grześkowiak, Przemysław Komosa, Adrian Kosowski, Michał Koperkiewicz, Marta Kwaśnik, Krzysztof Ocetkiewicz, Paweł Pieniążek, Paweł Skweres, Łukasz Wrona.

2010-04-24 14:29:52 IdeoneAPI submissions! by Łukasz Kuszner
Please have a look at IdeoneAPI submissions: InfoBart, NIID i Web Programming Tools. All submissions are in Polish but there is a chance to get the idea with a little help of translation software. Please feel free to comment in English.

2010-04-24 12:53:12 The contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner
A big thank-you to all High School Programming League contestants. We hope that you had a bit of fun solving problems and you have learned something during the competition. The official standings will be available in 96 hours. Please, share with us your opinions at the contest forum. It will help us to make the next edition better.

2010-04-21 10:22:48 On-site finals in Gdynia cancelled by Łukasz Kuszner
We do apologize to all who expected this event.

2010-04-17 15:05:28 Last week of the 5th series!. by Łukasz Kuszner
This is the last week of the 5th problem set series. Starting with today, submissions to Edge Searching problem are tested on all data sets and the results are visible to the submitting contestant only (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 12 data sets after the submission deadline). Attention: It might happend that the Edge Searching accepted solution might become rejected, if it will not pass one of the additional test cases.

2010-04-10 00:01:48 The end of the 5th series and the IdeonaAPI Stage 2 deadline forwarded! by Łukasz Kuszner
The end of 5th series has been forwarded until Saturday, April 24 and the deadline for the second stage of the IdeoneAPI special contest has been extended until Saturday, April 17.

2010-03-20 12:02:37 The 5th problem set series is under way! by Łukasz Kuszner
Fith problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Good luck!

2010-03-16 09:17:35 Official results of the 4th series by Łukasz Kuszner
Top 5 contestants (individual standings):
1. Jakub Pachocki (III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland)
2. Ivan Katanić (Gimnazija Požega, Croatia)
3. Vasiliy Mokin (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Pavel Kunyavskiy (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Grzegorz Prusak (Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących Nr 12, II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Generałowej Zamoyskiej i Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Poznaniu, Poland)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Ivan Katanić (ikatanic), Vasiliy Mokin (vasiliy), Pavel Kunyavskiy (kuniavski).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
 (coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland
 (coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)
3. Spojena skola Novohradska,
 (coach: Ondrej Demacek)

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
IVONA Reader receive: Jakub Piętka (jakp), Jakub Sygnowski (sygi);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Michał Kmak (piccolo10), Piotr Maszlanka (prg3d).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the 5th and the last contest series!

2010-03-13 12:01:12 The 4th series of the contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner
The 4th set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 72 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

2010-03-13 10:31:20 IdeoneApi special contest reminder by Łukasz Kuszner
This is just a short reminder. Please have a look at RunThis to get an example idea.

2010-03-06 15:49:31 Last week of the 4th series! by Łukasz Kuszner
This is the last week of the 4th problem set series. Starting with today, submissions to "Intergalactic Security Organization (Act IV)" problem are tested on all 12 data sets and the results are visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 12 data sets after the submission deadline).

2010-03-06 15:31:26 IdeoneAPI registration deadline forwarded. by Łukasz Kuszner
Due to inconsistency in deadline dates it has been forwarded by 14 days. We welcome IdeoneAPI Team registration forms by March 20, 2010.

2010-02-27 17:16:24 IdeoneApi special contest by Łukasz Kuszner
We invite you to take part in a new special contest. On February 1, 2010 Ideone API was made available. It allows you to use Ideone as a web service with your own desktop application, www server application or even mobile application (please have a look at Ideone API for some examples). We invite you to use the website creatively and to develop your own applications in the technology of your choice. Total prizes (350$). We expect Team registration by 6 March (more).

2010-02-24 11:40:43 The end of the 4th series forwarded by Łukasz Kuszner
The deadline of the 4th problem set series has been extended until Saturday, March 13.

2010-01-30 13:19:04 The 4th problem set series by Łukasz Kuszner
Two problem formulations are available. Submitting solutions and the remaining 3 problems will be available next week.

2010-01-18 23:09:31 Official results of the 3rd series by Łukasz Kuszner
Top 5 contestants (individual standings):
1. Jakub Pachocki (III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland)
2. Vasiliy Mokin (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Sergei Fedorov (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. Pavel Kunjavski (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
5. Ivan Katanić (Gimnazija Požega, Croatia)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Vasiliy Mokin (vasiliy), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Kunjavski Pavel (kuniavski).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia
 (coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland
 (coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland
 (coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)

The winner of the special contest is Krystian Dowolski (kosciej16) a student of the VIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Katowicach. The prize is a SPOJ T-shirt and books to be choosen by the winner (worth up to 50$), congratulations! Anyway, the solution submitted by Robert Gerbicz (the problem setter) is still the shortest one.

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
books receive: Jakub Woyke (jwoyke), Adam Mościcki (mostua);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Mateusz Bugdalski (rocket), Jakub Sygnowski (sygi).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

2010-01-16 12:00:21 The 3rd series of the contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner
The 3rd set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

2010-01-11 20:55:38 Last week of the 3rd series! by Łukasz Kuszner
This is the last week of the 3rd problem set series. Starting with Saturday, submissions to "All Red" problem are tested on all 10 data sets and the results are visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 10 data sets after the submission deadline).

Also the lengths of submitted source codes to "Primes in Brainf##k" problem are not on public display.

2010-01-01 11:57:37 Happy New Year 2010! by Łukasz Kuszner
Let your enthusiasm for learning lasts for the end of your life. Many successes and a Happy New Year.

2009-12-24 16:08:30 Merry Christmas! by Łukasz Kuszner
Best Wishes for a very Merry Christmas to all HSPL participants.

2009-12-21 20:46:38 Ideone.com by Łukasz Kuszner
Ideone.com is a... pastebin. But a pastebin like no other in the Internet. More accurate expression would be online mini IDE and debugging tool. Share, allow to clone and run your code on server side in 38 programming languages (number still growing) and do it all with your own input data! You can even try to debug your HSPL solution, but remember to set private option.

2009-12-12 12:11:22 The 3rd problem set series is under way! by Łukasz Kuszner
Third problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Good luck!

2009-12-05 01:10:57 Official results of the 2nd series by Łukasz Kuszner
Top 5 contestants (individual standings):
1. Victor Sadkov (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
2. Grzegorz Guśpiel (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)
3. Sergei Fedorov (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. Łukasz Solak (VIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Katowicach, Poland)
5. Sebastian Mizera (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Victor Sadkov (vitan), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Kunjavski Pavel (kuniavski).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Rosja
 (coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Polska
 (coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. Spojena skola Novohradska, Slovakia
 (coach: Ondrej Demacek)

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
one year's electronic subscription to Hakin9 receive: Damian Kociuba (appleman), Marcin Skiba (ilu2112);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Marcin Baczyński (monstter), Aleksander Domagała (fjjf172839).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

2009-12-04 17:26:51 Registration by Łukasz Kuszner
Due to constant queries, we inform that the registration is still possible. Please take to an account that registration will be valid to the series while the registration form will reach our office a week before the series deadline.

2009-11-29 23:24:16 We have more than 2000 contestants! by Łukasz Kuszner
neo303 (mukulrajput30) as 2000th contestant accepted regulations and joined the contest, welcome! Please remember that according to contest rules Internet part overall standings are based on the sum of big points taken from three best series results. Thus, everyone still has a chance to win!

2009-11-28 12:00:03 The 2nd series of the contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner
The 2nd set series is over. A big thank-you to all participants. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Your solutions and opinions are welcome at the contest forum.

2009-11-21 12:51:31 Last week of the 2nd series! by Łukasz Kuszner
This is the last week of the 2nd problem set series. Starting with today, submissions to "All Sets Sequence" problem are tested on all 10 data sets and the results will only be visible to the submitting contestant (earlier solutions will also be extended to all 10 data sets after the submission deadline).

2009-10-31 13:17:49 Mowing Optimization movies by Łukasz Kuszner
Thanks to Przemek Komosa (pschemo) for some animations showing best solutions in action.

2009-10-31 12:20:07 The 2nd problem set series is under way! by Łukasz Kuszner
Second problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Four problems are already available for solving! The remaining one, and a list of prizes will be available soon.

2009-10-25 23:39:02 Official results of the 1st series by Łukasz Kuszner
Top 5 contestants (individual standings):
1. Grzegorz Guśpiel (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Poland)
2. Vasiliy Mokin (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
3. Sergei Fedorov (Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Russia)
4. Jakub Pachocki (III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Poland)
5. Piotr Maszlanka (Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych w Rzeszowie, Poland)

Top 3 contestants up to 17 years: Vasiliy Mokin (vasiliy), Sergei Fedorov (sergei_fedorov), Victor Sadkov (vitan).

Top 3 schools:
1. Physico-technical Lyceum #1, Saratov, Rosja
 (coach: Udalova Tatyana Lvovna)
2. V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. A. Witkowskiego w Krakowie, Polska
 (coach: Andrzej Dyrek)
3. III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni, Polska
 (coach: Ryszard Szubartowski)

Prizes for top contestants in schools (lucky draw):
one year's subscription to Linux+ receive: Norbert Gregorek (kafor7) i Maciej Małecki (smt116);
SPOJ T-shirts receive: Wojciech Pituła (krev) i Łukasz Starzyk (divh).

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thank-you to all participants, and good luck in the next contest series!

2009-10-24 12:01:26 The 1st series of the contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner
A big thank-you to all participants of the 1st contest series. The ranklist will be updated soon. The official standings will be available in 48 hours. Now, you can discuss your solutions at contest forum.

2009-10-17 12:00:01 Last week of the 1st series by Łukasz Kuszner
This is the last week of the 1st problem set series. Submissions to Mowing Optimization problem are now available. Status of submissions will be visible to the submitting contestant only.

2009-10-09 23:52:42 The end of the 1st series and the registration deadline extended! by Łukasz Kuszner
Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline and the registration deadline has been extended. School registration is possible until Saturday, October 17 and solutions to first series problems might be submitted until noon Saturday, October 24.

2009-10-07 01:09:03 Exemplary tests for Mowing Optimization problem by Łukasz Kuszner
Exemplary test cases for Mowing Optimization problem have been revealed.

2009-10-01 12:38:23 The last ten days for the contest registration by Łukasz Kuszner

We kindly remind you to register before October 10. Please, ensure that your school has been officially registered.

Please, have a look at official standings and the list of prizes. The sponsors for this series are: Talent Association, Sphere Research Labs and Linux+ Magazine.

2009-09-26 12:50:17 The 0 series special contest is over! by Łukasz Kuszner

The winner of the 0 series special contest is Peter Szoke (pszoeke), who solved the problem BMI in 35 of the languages available at SPOJ. But the best among registered contestant is Tomasz Kominiarczuk (elfling) a student of the 1st High School in Legnica, Poland (I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. T. Kościuszki w Legnicy). The prize is a SPOJ T-shirt and books to be choosen by the winner (worth up to 50$), congratulations!

2009-09-19 23:38:24 We have 1000 contestants! by Łukasz Kuszner
David Hoffman (kerplatz) as 1000th contestant accepted regulations and joined the contest, welcome! Do you think that High School Programming League is an interesting event and one thousand is not enough? If so, please help us to promote it! You will find an appropriate materials at press office page.

2009-09-19 12:00:01 We have started! by Łukasz Kuszner
First problem set consists of 5 problems, each worth a maximum of 10 points. Three problems are already available for solving! The remaining two, and a list of prizes will be available soon.

2009-09-17 23:15:13 Special contest deadline extended! by Łukasz Kuszner
Due to technical problems caused by the last SPOJ major upgrade the deadline for the special contest (solving test problem in as many programming languages as possible) has been extended until Saturday, September 26.

2009-09-07 00:34:04 Scarky.com by Łukasz Kuszner
Scarky.com is a free web service that allows you to create a variety of challenges (including programming) and to place them on your website or blog. Please visit Scarky Blog to obtain further details.

2009-09-07 00:10:24 Test problem by Łukasz Kuszner
The test problem has been made available. Please have a look at rules, info, SPOJ guide and a short description of the previous contest edition.

2009-09-03 09:59:42 Welcome! by Łukasz Kuszner
You can find the HSPL first edition web pages at hs08.spoj.pl. Registration for the second edition is absolutely free and will be available from September 5, 2009.

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