In 2013, the International Olympiad in Informatics will be held in Brisbane, Australia. The IOI is the world's premier international computer programming competition for high school students from over 80 countries. This blog catalogues the trials and tribulations of Australia's eight contestants through their training and experience at the IOI, July 6th-13th.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Practice exams and falafels
Today we had our third practice exam, it was one of the most annoying exams that I've done, I got 50% on one question (failing only one test case) at around 10am and stayed on that score for that problem for the rest of the exam.
The rest of the exam was fairly typical, an easy problem and an almost impossible one that even now that we know the algorithm would be extremely hard to code.
We had a very different lunch to usual afterwards, rather than the typical "everyone go off and do their own thing", we instead all sat around a table and got Middle Eastern food to share, constantly finishing the falafels and having Jarrah go up and order more, to the point where we got free ones.
We have also had an extremely controversial update in the training site display style which caused a major uproar in the labs.
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