Programming Contest Problems Archive

Welcome to the Programming Contest Problems Archive!

If you are preparing for a programming contest or just want to have some interesting problems this page might be useful. Here you can find past problems of national, regional and international contests. Have fun!

New Items:

IOI' 96
PCWeek Contest
ACM North Central Regional Contest
Programmer of the Month Contest
Karpinsk Tram 96 Programming Contest
Canadian Computing Competition

International Olympiad in Informatics

IOI'89 - Pravetz, Bulgaria

IOI'90 - Minsk, Belarus, Soviet-Union

IOI'91 - Athens, Greece

IOI'92 - Bonn, Germany

IOI'93 - Mendoza, Argentina

IOI'94 - Haninge, Sweden

IOI'95 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands

IOI'96 - Veszprém, Hungary

Day 1 tasks: A Game, Job Processing, Network of Schools in zipped Word for Windows format and in HTML

Day 2 tasks: Sorting a Three-Valued Sequence, Longest Prefix, Magic Squares in zipped Word for Windows format and in HTML

Miscellaneous: test data for all the 6 tasks, mtool.exe to the task Magic Squares, include modules for the tas k A Game

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM'91 in text and HTML

ACM'92 in text and HTML

DUKE Internet Programming Contest

1990 problems in TeX and Postscript format and complete package (.tar.gz)

1991 problems in TeX and Postscript format and complete package (.tar.gz)

1992 problems in plain text, TeX and Postscript format and complete package (.tar.gz)

1993 problems in plain text, TeX and Postscript format and complete package (.tar.gz)

USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)

USACO'93

Qualifier round problems (text and HTML) and answers

Competition round problems (text and HTML) and answers

Final round problems (text and HTML) and dictionary file for problem 4 (also zipped)

USACO'94

Qualifier round problems (text and HTML) and answers

Competition round problems (text and HTML) and solution for problem 2

Final round problems (text and HTML)

USACO'95

Qualifier round problems

Competition round problems

Final round problems

USACO'96

Qualifier round problems

Competition round problems

ACM regional contests

South Pacific

SP'91 problems & solutions (tar.gz 26k)

SP'92 problems & solutions (tar.gz 25k)

SP'93 problems & solutions (tar.gz 26k)

East Central

1993 problems in TeX and Postscript (gzip, 45k)

1994 problems in TeX and Postscript (gzip, 51k)

South Central

1995 problems: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

South East

South East Regionals 1990 (tiff.Z 799k)

North Central

Sample problems from past ACM North Central Contests

Southern California

Southern California Regional Final 1989/90 (tar.gz 110k)

Western European

1993 problems (Postscript, gzip)

Problem A: Chess

Problem B: Spin

Problem C: Vertex

Problem D: Cube

Problem E: Rename

Problem F: Compress

Problem G: Logic

Southwestern European

1993 problems (Postscript, gzip)

Problem A: Crosswords

Problem B: Dead or Not That is the Question

Problem C: Comparsion

Problem D: Arithmetic Operations With Large Integers

Problem E: A Very Nasty Text Formatter

Problem F: Palindroms

Problem G: The House of Santa Claus

1994 problems (Postscript, gzip 71k)

New Zealand Contest

NZ'90 problems & solutions (tar.gz 26k)

NZ'91 problems & solutions (tar.gz 27k)

NZ'92 problems & solutions (tar.gz 72k)

NZ'93 problems & solutions (tar.gz 49k)

YSU-ACM High School Programming Contest

1991 problems in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

1992 problems in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

1993 problems in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

1994 problems in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

American Computer Science League (ACSL)

Junior Division

Contest #1: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #2: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #3: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #4: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Intermediate Division

Contest #1: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #2: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #3: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #4: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Senior Division

Contest #1: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #2: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #3: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Contest #4: Short Problems -- Programming Problem

Classroom Division

AllStar Division

Programming Problems

Calgary Region Computer Programming Competition

1994 Contest problems and solutions

1995 Contest problems and solutions

1995 Contest problems and solutions

Central European Olympiad in Informatics

CEOI'94, Cluj, Romania

CEOI'95, Szeged, Hungary

Correspondence Seminar in Programming (CSP)

1st-11th CSP - Selected Problems

12th CSP Series 3

12th CSP Series 4

13th CSP Series 1

13th CSP Series 2

13th CSP Series 3

13th CSP Series 4

All Ireland Schools Programming Competition

1994 contest

Round 1, problems and solutions

Final Round, Day 1, problems and solutions

Final Round, Day 2, problems and solutions

1995 contest

Round 1 problems

1996 contest problems

ACS Australian Programming Competition

1995 Mail Server Problems

Calculating Statistics

The End of the World

String Processing

Postal Problems

Alphabet Fractions

Bungling Bureaucracy

Friendly Coin Sets

1995 Practice Problems

1995 Competition Problems

Splendid Spangles

Channel Allocation

The Annual Berkeley Programming Contest

Problem sets are in gzipped Postscipt format.

1991 Fall Contest

1992 Fall Contest

1993 Fall Contest

1994 Fall Contest

1995 Fall Contest

The Denison Spring Programming Contest

Waterloo Local Contest

1992 Fall Contest

1993 Spring Contest #1

1993 Spring Contest #2

1994 Fall Contest #1

1994 Fall Contest #2

1995 Winter Contest

1995 Fall Contest #1 (.ps.gz)

1995 Fall Contest #2 (.ps.gz)

The UPJ ACM High School Computer Programming Contest

1995 Problems

Problem 1: A recuurence Relation

Problem 2: TEX Quotes

Problem 3: Statistical Analysis

Problem 4: Triangles

Problem 5: Word Search

International Computer Problem Solving Challenge (ICPSC)

Elementary Division Problems (1982-94), zipped

Junior Division Problems (1981-94), zipped

Senior Division Problems (1981-94), zipped

Bits and Chips Programming Contest

1993 Fall Problems: Indiana Zones, Koala Hideout, Light Pockets, Prestidigitation

1994 Winter Problems: Friend or Foe, 6~Modacity, Short DES, Simple Fracture

1994 Spring Problems: Dancing Squares, Hilbert Hack, Palindrama, Spin Doctor

1994 Fall Problems: Derailed, Permute Commute, Space Walk, Tub Drop

1995 Winter Problems: Cat Nap, Jury Censor, Pyramid, Roll It

1995 Spring Problems: Big Product, Common Scents, Knight Poll, Walkabout

1995 Fall Problems: Bowlerama, CD Siesta, Fast Food, Prime Gap

Sample solutions, input and output test data can be found on the Homepage

Other Contests

FIU-UCF Programming Contest 1991 problems in plain text and TeX format

The British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) 1995

Harding University Local Programming Contest, Fall 1992

Notre Dame ACM Fall Programming Contest

ODU ACM Fall Programming Contest 1991

ODU ACM Spring Programming Contest 1992 in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

ODU ACM Spring Programming Contest 1993 in TeX and gzipped Postscript format

Mountain Region Programming Contest 1990 problems and errata

USACO Problem of the week

SMSU Problem of the week

Simpson College Programming Contest 1995

Concours Informatique Luxembourgois Home Page

Programmer of the Month Contest

Canadian Computing Competition

Karpinsk Tram 96 Programming Contest

PCWeek problems in zipped RTF format

La folle course informatique

Other collections worth checking out

Problem Set Archive at ETH Zürich

Collection of Ed Karrels

Visit the Programming Contest information page

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