Homework before week 5¶

This week we will start to prepare for NCPC 2026, the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest. Taking part in NCPC is entirely optional, but there are additional points available for everyone who takes part in NCPC.

There is no homework reading this time. Instead, you will explore and solve some problems that appeared in NCPC a few years ago.

Homework problems¶

The homework is a rerun of an old NCPC contest. The Kattis contest link will be added here soon.

Please use your own Kattis account. If you do not have one yet, create one on Kattis before joining the contest.

The contest contains 13 tasks. As usual, some are very easy and will be solved by almost all teams, while others are very hard and may not be solved by anyone. The tasks are not ordered by difficulty.

You are expected to solve 2 tasks correctly. You can freely choose which tasks to solve. The main goal is to practice going through a long list of tasks and identifying those that are likely to be easiest for you.

Solving any 2 tasks is enough to complete the homework, but you are encouraged to solve more for additional practice before NCPC.