¶ Technical Information
¶ Contest Environment
The contest will be run on a VirtualBox virtual machine running Debian 11 and the GNOME desktop environment (version 3.38.5).
The contest image can be downloaded here (last updated on June 9th).
The following software is available in the contest environment:
¶ Text Editors
- Code::Blocks 20.03
- Eclipse 2024-03
- Emacs 27.1
- Geany 1.37.1
- Gedit 3.38.1
- Gvim 8.2
- Joe 4.6
- Kate 20.12.2
- KDevelop 5.6.2
- Nano 5.4
- Sublime Text 4169
- Visual Studio Code 1.89.1
(with Python & C/C++ extensions) - PyCharm
Documentation for C++ and Python will be available in the contest system.
¶ Judge System
The competition will use the Kattis online judge. The only supported submission languages are C++ and Python. See the Kattis languages page for more information about versions and compilation flags. Note that Kattis uses the PyPy runtime for python, and that the judge system uses GCC version 12.3 whereas the contest image has GCC version 10.
The firewall in the contest image has been set up so that only the contest site is accessible. At the moment you have access to Open Kattis that can be used if you want to try submitting to the contest system before the start of the practice session. In order to submit to this contest you can use your own Kattis account. Note that in the VM you will not be able to sign in using other log in methods than a Kattis account due to the firewall. During the contest the contestants will use Kattis accounts provided by the Scientific Committee.
¶ Hardware
The contest will be held on laptops. (Laptops are Lenovo T480/T480s the laptops have a US keyboard). There will be no external keyboard or mouse provided to the contestants who do not bring their own.
