Sample Problems and Solutions
In order to be useful you should try to solve these sample problems with a time limit. Try to ensure that
you completely finish the problem. It is very easy to say "I know how to do that", but if a similar problem
comes up in the competition, you might find out that you didnt really know it. Also remember that just
because your program works for some sample input doesn’'t mean that it will work for all possible
input.
1994 All Ireland Competition
- Round 1
- Problems and
solutions
(unfortunately for BASIC and Pascal programmers, all solutions are written in C).
- Final Round (This was over two days)
1996 All Ireland Competition
1996 Problems
IOI Competitions
Problem sets from
previous IOI competitions
are kept in the Netherlands. These are maintained by
Tom Verhoeff, scientific
committee leader of
IOI 95.
Other puzzles
Google directory has a good
collection of programming competitions.
There is a FAQ
(Frequently
Asked Questions) for the rec.puzzles
newsgroup.
It doesn't have that many computer related puzzles though.