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Home » Wiki » CodeChef on Campus - January 2010

CodeChef on Campus - January 2010

Welcome to the 4th edition of CodeChef on Campus.

In this issue we'll cover:

* A Second Contest This Month specially for you
* Topic of the month
* Results of the CodeChef Campus SnackDown
* Campus Activities

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A Second Contest This Month
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We wanted everyone to get a chance to try their hand at the CodeChef SnackDown problems. So we have scheduled a team based contest on 24th January with the 8 problems of the SnackDown final round. It will be a 5 hour contest that starts at 21:30 Indian Standard Time. Since CodeChef users (our snackdown finalists) have already had a chance to see these problems, we will not be having prizes for this contest. You will be able to register for the contest here <http://www.codechef.com/teams/register/SNONLINE>, and the contest will be available at: http://www.codechef.com/SNONLINE/. We hope you have fun!

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Topic of the month - Introduction to Game Theory
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Overview

"A lot of interesting problems can be based on the theory of impartial games. The problems usually involve each player playing optimally (that is, trying to win) on each turn. We discuss one such problem in this month's tutorial <http://www.codechef.com/wiki/tutorial-game-theory>. "

Referenced articles :
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~limchuwe/cgt/
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials&d2=algorithmGames
http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/maths/games/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

Sample problem on basic Game Theory
http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=6856

Sample problems on advanced Game theory (This tutorial is a very basic introduction to Game theory and it is recommended that one should read the referenced articles before attempting these)
http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=2987&rd=5862
http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=7424
http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=6239

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Results of the CodeChef Campus SnackDown
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After two months, multiple rounds, sleepless nights and a lot of distance traveled, the CodeChef Campus SnackDown has finally ended! We had a lot of fun with this competition and got to meet some very interesting people. Make sure to check out our blog post <http://blog.codechef.com/2010/01/11/moments-from-the-codechef-campus-snackdown/>, capturing the moments from the final day of the CodeChef Campus Snackdown,held at the DirectiPlex in Mumbai.

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Campus Activities
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We hope that all of you had an awesome holiday season! It was expected that CodeChef Campus activities would be low. However we still had some enthusiastic campers host the following contests.

Contest: Technovanza 2010
College: VJTI, Mumbai
Contests: http://www.codechef.com/TV10CAT1/

Event: Zero Hour http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Delhi-India/Zero-Hour-Where-It-All-Begins/216732734423
College: IIT, Delhi
Activity: Technical Talk by Vineet Gupta on Data Storage and Retrieval Patterns in Mega Scale Systems

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If you have any feedback then do drop in an email at feedback@codechef.com .
If you have mentioned us on your blog or website send us links and we will add it in our next letter.

Cheers!

Anusha Pinto
Community Evangelist
Ph: 022 30797616
http://codechef.com

Campus initiatives: http://codechef.com/campus

Connect with us:
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