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Enhance problem-solving skills, win prizes, represent Hong Kong internationally, make friends, get free trips, prepare for ACM ICPC, IOI 2007, and NOI 2007! Attend training sessions and IOI/NOI Team Formation Test for a chance to compete. Access training materials & join online judges for practice.
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Introduction to HKOI 13 January 2007
Benefits of Joining HKOI • Improve your problem solving skills • Prizes (you already have some) • Chances to represent Hong Kong in international • competitions • Free trips • Make new friends • Prepare for other competitions • e.g. ACM ICPC
External Competitions • International Olympiad in Informatics • IOI 2007 at Zagreb(札格拉布), Croatia In 15-22 August, 2007 • Four representatives from Hong Kong • IOI 2007 will be Linux-only • http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ioi/
External Competitions • National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2007 • Five representatives from Hong Kong • At least one of which will be a girl • For students aged 18 or below on 30 June 2007 • http://www.noi.cn/
External Competitions • SEARCC/AIC • Not guaranteed • For students not older than 17 years old • Compete in teams of three
IOI/NOI Team Formation Test • 9 June 2007 • Normally 4 tasks in 4 hours • The top 7 contestants and the top female contestant
Preparing for the TFT • Attending the HKOI training • HKOI Homepage http://www.hkoi.org/ • Training Materials • HKOI Newsgroup news://news.hkoi.org/hkoi • Asking questions
Training Sessions • Almost every Saturday except holidays • AM session: 10:00am - 1:00pm • PM session: 2:00pm - 5:00pm • Room 123, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK
Preparing for the TFT • Additional References • Introduction to Algorithms • The MIT Press; 2 edition (September 1, 2001) • by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein • OIBH http://oibh.kuye.cn/ (for Beginners only)
Preparing for the TFT • Online Judges • HKOI Online Judge: https://judge.hkoi.org/ • UVA OJ: http://acm.uva.es/p/ • USACO: http://train.usaco.org/