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HKOI 2004. Introduction to HKOI. Why are you here?. Selected by your school to participate in HKOI Passed through HKOI Heat Competing with 300 contestants to be top 70 Passed through HKOI Final Competing with 20 past team members to be top 30. It is not easy at all!. AIC. NOI. IOI. AIC.
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HKOI 2004 Introduction to HKOI
Why are you here? • Selected by your school to participate in HKOI • Passed through HKOI Heat • Competing with 300 contestants to be top 70 • Passed through HKOI Final • Competing with 20 past team members to be top 30 It is not easy at all!
AIC NOI IOI AIC IOI NOI Intermediate HKOI TFT TFT TFT TFT Intermediate HKOI Advanced Advanced Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec What are you doing here? Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Intermediate HKOI Advanced Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Test 4 … ACM ICPC
Who are in front of you? • Selected by your school to participate in HKOI • Passed through HKOI Heat • Competing with 300 contestants to be top 70 • Passed through HKOI Final • Competing with 20 past team members to be top 30 • Passed through at least one TFT • At least Top 7! • Competed in at least one external competitions • Met with friends from all over the world • Studying in/Graduated from HKU, CUHK and HKUST
What are we doing? • Problem • The computers are stupid. • But we are smart. • Solution • Make ourselves stupid. • Use the computer for what it can do. • Make computers smart. • Teach the computer to do more.
Why do we need to learn? • Problem • Human make mistakes. • Computers don’t understand mistakes. • Problem • Computers are faster than human, but not very fast. • Human need to give efficient instructions. • Solution • Be here!
Who should not stay here? • Those who are not up to standard • Those who can’t sacrifice their study time • Those who don’t think they don’t know something • Those who disturb others from learning
Q&A Question: May I leave now?
Q&A Question: What else can I ask?
Probably a New Environment • We use FreePascal and GCC • Familiarity with the environment is an absolute advantage. • You need to be familiar with it from now on.