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Notes for future coaches

These are things that aren't necessarily obvious to noobie coaches. If a coach has competed before, then this might be old hat.

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Running PC2

The code used to run contests is PC^2

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There is some nice server documentation from NCPC

To run the code:

Find a contest that has input/output data (and, hopefully, solutions).
Download the pc2v8 code to someplace, let's call it $SERVERDIR. It will work on cascade.cs.ubc.ca.
Modify the pc2v8.ini file.
- Good settings are server=cascade.cs.ubc.ca:50002; comment out remoteServer for local contests. See template.
- Put all the sites in sitelist.ini. Just "UBC Local" for us; add "SFU Local" for joint competitions.
Copy the in/out data to someplace, let's call it $DATADIR. When you run pc2admin, it will ask you where that is.

Preparation

You are allowed quite a lot of notes at the Regional. Printing out lots of code samples (e.g. Rubik's cube solution) is useful. It might be worth putting some effort into creating team notebooks that have lots of yummy stuff in them.

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