Hello Codeforces!

On March 22, 9:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 40 will start. This will be a special round, branded by VTB and the Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp.

This round is held in collaboration with Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp and supported by the premier and international bank VTB, based in Russia.

Over 100 participants from the India side of the boot camp will be competing as individuals in this special online round!

JSC VTB Bank was founded in 1990, and its subsidiary banks and financial organisations (VTB Group or the Group) are a leading Russian financial group, offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS, and a number of countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. VTB Group has the most extensive international network among all Russian banks, including more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries.

The round will contain 9 problems, and you will have 3 hours to solve them. Problem authors are GlebsHP, vovuh, awoo, Xahandd and me.

We wish all of the participants good luck! Hope all of you will find something interesting in this contest.

UPD: Editorial is here.

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

Hello Codeforces!

On March 06, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 39 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This is a special Educational Round — Top three contestants among those who are eligible for participating in ACM ICPC will be invited to attend the Hello India x Russia Programming boot camp under the Codeforces + SDV banners, on a full team sponsorship.

Social Discovery Ventures (SDV) creates, develops and funds Internet projects specialising in communication platforms that enable people across the world to get closer and expand their social networks.

The winners will be fully sponsored with their boot camp participation fees, accomodation, and meals for the India location!

This round also has a special regional prize — the company Phaze Ventures, a platform founded to transform the region by unlocking the untapped potential of our youth, startups and corporates, will be sponsoring the top 3 participants of this round from Oman (also among those who are eligible for ACM ICPC) — further sharing the importance of supporting talented programmers and sending them to these types of events throughout the world.

The round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them. Problem authors are awoo, vovuh and me.

Good luck to the participants! Hope you will enjoy the contest.

UPD: The tutorial has been published.

Hello, Codeforces!

On February 02, 17:35 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 37 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

As usual, the round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally. You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev and me. One of the problems was proposed by unbelievable02.

Good luck to all participants!

I also have a message from our partners, Harbour.Space University:

We are happy to announce the addition of two new coaches to our Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp: Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, Artem VArtem Vasilyev and Filipp DPR-pavlin Rukhovich will all be attending at our India location, Amrita School of Engineering.

We look forward to seeing you all there this spring! For those of you who haven't registered, there's still time.

The Early Bird discount will be set at 20% for those who register before February 12th, 2018.

If you have any questions we can help you with, please connect with us:

Phone number: +34 674 291 422 Email Address: [email protected]

UPD. Editorial is here.

Hello Codeforces!

On November 23, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 33 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

As an experiment, the round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD: Editorial.

I also have a message from our partners, Harbour.Space University:

Be sure to join these courses to sharpen your programming and data analysis skills:

Combinatorics and graphs with Sergey Nikolenko, Researcher, Steklov Mathematical Institute at. St. Petersburg. He is a computer scientist with vast experience in machine learning and data analysis, algorithms design and analysis, theoretical computer science, and algebra.

Algorithms and Data Structures with Edith Elkind, Professor University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science. She researches game theory and the computation of social choices. She looks at the decisions involved in multi-agent systems such as auctions, elections and co-operative games.

Big Data Analysis: Mapreduce, Spark, BigTable/HBase, Distributed Data with Pavel Klemenkov and Alexey Dral. With HDFS, MapReduce, Spark, and NoSQL, students will master and sharpen their knowledge in basic technologies of the modern Big Data landscape.

Parallel and Distributed + High Performance Computing with Dalvan Griebler. The name says it all. Learn how to run your programs faster.

List of all courses:

27.11.17 — 15.12.17 — Image and Video Analysis with Archontis Giannakidis

27.11.17 — 15.12.17 — Linear Algebra with Archontis Giannakidis

08.01.18 — 26.01.18 — Text Mining & Translation with Sergey Nikolenko

08.01.18 — 26.01.18 — Combinatorics and graphs with Sergey Nikolenko

29.01.18 — 16.02.18 — Security analysis of networked objects with Yaroslav Rabovolyuk

19.02.18 — 09.03.18 — Security Operations Center and Cyber Threat Hunting with Sergey Soldatov and Teymur Kheirkhabarov

19.02.18 — 09.03.18 — Calculus with Dmitry Ivankov

12.03.18 — 30.03.18 — Malware Reverse Engineering with Vladislav Stolyarov, Victor Chebyshev and Boris Larin

09.04.18 — 27.04.18 — Incident Response & Digital Forensics with Konstantin Sapronov and Ayman Shaaban

09.04.18 — 27.04.18 — Linear algebra with David Zmiaikou

30.04.18 — 18.05.18 — Statistical Data Analysis with Evgeniy Riabenko

30.04.18 — 18.05.18 — Probability theory with Evgeniy Riabenko

21.05.18 — 08.06.18 — Parallel and Distributed + High Performance Computing with Dalvan Griebler

21.05.18 — 08.06.18 — Algorithms and Data Structures with Edith Elkind

11.06.18 — 29.06.18 — Big Data Analysis: Map Reduce, Spark, BigTable/HBase, Distributed Data with Pavel Klemenkov and Alexey Dral

Register for your spot

Hello Codeforces!

On November 09, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 32 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev and me.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD: Editorial.

I also have a message from our partners, Harbour.Space University:

Thank you for taking part in the 2nd Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC. It was a pleasure to have you on board. We hope you enjoyed it and we would love to have you back next time.

Congratulations ITMO and Harbour.Space University teams for winning divisions A and B! It was amazing watching the scoreboard throughout all nine days as teams from New South Wales, Saint Petersburg, Tokyo, among many others, challenged the top spots. Watch the recap here!

``Geometry is the key to success in modern contests'' states Andrey Stankevich, coach of 7 ACM-ICPC World Champions

Lecturing both divisions A and B, Andrey brought a vast wealth of knowledge to the boot camp, and shed light on how to better tackle the problem sets that teams will face in their upcoming regional competitions.

“What technology should we use to analyze big data?” asks Alexey Dral, Head of Data Science School at Corporate University of Sberbank

Leisure day was a full one, with bus city tours, to gaming, to lectures and workshops. We had many special guests Sberbank, including Alexey Dral, who talks about the impact of a boot camp that is not only focused on the coding aspect, but the machine learning, the data processing and the practices that each participant can utilise to become an ACM-ICPC competitor to be reckoned with.

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Hello Codeforces!

On September 21, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 29 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Mikhail MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

Hello Codeforces!

On September 05, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 28 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD. Editorial can be found here.

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

169 successful hacks and 113 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

Hello Codeforces!

On June 29, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 24 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours 15 minutes to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Alexey Perforator Ripinen and me.

Good luck to all participants!

I also have a message from Harbour.Space University about the ML course held at the university:

Nowadays machine learning technologies are widely used in practice in various applied fields such as retail, mass media, PR and marketing, banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, science and many other areas.

We are pleased to announce our Industrial Machine Learning course, aimed to teach the structure and the life cycle of the machine learning process and covers topics ranging from the problem statement to final quality assessment as well as estimation of the economic effect.

This course is taught by two Data Scientists from Yandex, Emeli Dral and Victor Kantor. Emeli Dral is the Head of Predictive Analysis, whereas Victor Kantor is the Head of User Behaviour Analysis Group at Yandex.

http://in.harbour.space/data-science/industrial-machine-learning/

They share with us their knowledge on everything from the most promising applications of data science today to applying the latest advancements in machine learning to your work.

UPD: The editorial can be found here.

We are really sorry for the issue with the testing system. We hope that it won't happen during next contests.

Hello Codeforces!

On June 15, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 23 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me. Huge thanks to Alexey Perforator Ripinen, Alexey ashmelev Shmelev and Maxim HellKitsune Finutin for testing!

Good luck to all participants!

UPD. I am pleased to announce the 2nd Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, which will be hosted by our partner Harbour.Space University together with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, ITMO University, Moscow Physics and Technology University, Saint Petersburg State University and Codeforces!

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UPD: The editorial is published.

Hello Codeforces!

On June 05, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 22 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space university initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. We tried to design the problems in such a way that both beginners and experienced programmers can find something interesting in the contest.

The problems were prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me. Huge thanks to Maxim HellKitsune Finutin and Alexey ashmelev Shmelev for testing the contest!

Good luck to all participants!

UPD: The editorial is published.

Hello Codeforces!

On May 15, 18:05 MSK will be held Educational Codeforces Round 21.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space university initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space and Codeforces in the blog post.

The round will be unrated for all users and will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours 30 minutes to solve them. We hope that everyone will find something interesting in this contest.

The round was prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Mikhail MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov and me.

Here is message from Igor Maksimov, Harbour.Space University.

I want to make an announcement of the upcoming 2nd Hello Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp that will take place in Barcelona from the 27th of September until the 4th of October 2017, in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, is an opportunity for teams of different levels to prepare for successful participation in ACM ICPC.

The Bootcamp will be split in two divisions:

• Division A. Designed to prepare students to excel and win medals in the next ACM-ICPC World Finals.
• Division B. Division B. Designed to help teams prepare for the next season of ACM ICPC Regionals and international competitions. This is an appropriate introduction for teams and students new to the world of ACM ICPC and competitive programming competitions in general. The Division B curriculum features thematic lectures and contests.

Harbour.space University introduce the video about the 1st ACM-ICPC Programming Bootcamp held in February, 2017.

Take a part of the upcoming 2nd Hello Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp that will take place in Barcelona from the 27th of September until the 5th of October 2017.

More information →

Good luck to everyone!

UPD: Editorial is out.

We want to apologize for the issue with problem C. We hope this didn't totally ruin the contest to those who got Judgement Failed on their submissions.

Hello Codeforces!

Good news! Harbour.Space is supporting the return of a new series of educational rounds on Codeforces! You can read the details in the blog post.

On March 27, 17:35 MSK will be held Educational Codeforces Round 18.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. We hope that everyone, both novices and experienced coders, will find something interesting in this contest. The contest will be unrated.

The round was prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Mikhail MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov and me. We'd like to thank Maxim HellKitsune Finutin and Alexey ashmelev Shmelev for testing the round.

Wish you enjoy the contest! Good luck!

UPD: Editorial.

UPD2: All successful hacks have been added to the testsets, all submissions have been rejudged. Thank you for participating in the contest!