4 KiB
4 KiB
Other Resources
- USACO -> CPH Topics
- Riya's website
- IOI Syllabus
- Darren's book
- Division-Specific Categorization
- Silver Categorization
Intro
- Introduction to Competitive Programming
- Contest Format
- Choosing a Language
- Practicing and Debugging
- Contest Strategies
- Prerequisites
- Introductory Problems
- Author Note: be explicit about how to implement things (say "arrays" or "for-loops")
- Author Note: Fence Painting
- Author Note: Word Processing
- Standard Containers Intro
Bronze
- Simulation (just do what statement tells you to do)
- ex. The Lost Cow
- Complete Search
- ex. Tracing
- Rectangle Geometry
- ex. Billboard
- "Observation"
- basically everything else (requires more thought)
- ex. Mad Scientist
Silver
- Greedy
- ex?
- Standard Containers
- ex?
- Sorting
- Binary Search (BinSearch)
- Two Pointers (2P)
- Prefix Sums (Psum)
- ex. Breed Counting
- Flood Fill (FF)
- ex. Switching on the Lights
- Occasionally, graph problems appear in bronze ...
- Permutations
- Cycle Decomposition?
- ex. Swapity Swapity Swap
Gold
- Dynamic Programming (DP)
- ex. Time is Mooney
- Sliding Window?
- ex. Haybale Feast
- Graphs
- Breadth First Search (BFS)
- ex. Cow Navigation
- Shortest Path (SP)
- ex. Milk Pumping
- Minimum Spanning Tree (MST)
- Disjoint Set Union (DSU)
- ex. Fencedin
- Topological Sort (TopoSort)
- ex. Timeline
- Breadth First Search (BFS)
- Range Sum Queries with Point Updates
- ex. Haircut
- Number Theory
- ex. Cow Poetry
- Geometry
- ex. ?
- Strings
- Trie?
- Hashing
- ex. Cownomics
- Combinatorics
- Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion (PIE)
- ex. Cowpatibility
Platinum
Just a sampling of the many possible topics.
- Trees
- Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)
- mostly platinum but may appear in gold as well
- ex. cowland
- Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)
- Range Queries
- Segment Tree
- possibly useful for gold
- Static Array Queries
- 2D
- Segment Tree
- Bitset
- Slope Trick
- Fracturing Search