2001 LSU Computer Science High School Programming Contest

Sponsored by Texas Instruments

Errata

As with all things, mistakes happen. Here are the ones we found:

  1. Veteran Problem 5 - Treasure Maps
    Each time you visit a square it counts as a visit. In other words, you are counting how many square you have been in, not how many unique squares you have been in.

  2. MS Visual Basic - General Language Instructions
    You only need to submit the form (.frm) file and you need to write your output to the file c:\temp\output.txt (don't write to standard-out [stdout], i.e. the screen)

  3. Borland Turbo Pascal - General Langaue Instructions
    You must follow the directions listed on the Languages Information page to get things to work

  4. Command Windows
    If you want to see all your output from a Test submission, you need to change the attributes of the Console within NT:
    • Click Start, Settings and click on the Control Panel
    • <double-click> the Console applet
    • Click the Layout tab near the top
    • In the Screen Buffer Size area, change the Height value to 100
    • In the Window Size area, change the Height value to 55
    • Click OK to close the window
    • Close the Control Panel window
  5. may try to connect to a share, check do not do this again, press okay
  6. Quick and Dirty Procedure to get MS Visual C/C++ code to compile correctly:
    1. Create a new text file.
    2. Type in your source code.
    3. Save source code with a C or CPP extension.
    4. Click the compile or build buttons on the toolbar.
    5. When prompted to create a default project workspace, select "YES".
    6. Your code should compile correctly.


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