Kattisburg Challenge

The Challenge

Kattis is one of the leading websites for competitive programming challenges, featuring thousands of programming contest questions and an easy submission system. It ranks individuals according to the sum of the ELO-type ranks of individual problems solved. It also ranks colleges based on a combined weighted average of individual scores affiliated with their institution.

If you are a Gettysburg College student, please join us in climbing our way up the Centennial Conference rankings!

• Create a Kattis account that is public and has "Gettysburg College" specified for the profile "University" field.
• Login to Kattis. Your home page will suggest unsolved problems with different estimated difficulties for you.
• Start familiarizing yourself with the interface by solving the "Hello World!" problem.
• If you regularly solve a few trivial problems or a single medium problem, you'll find that you (and Gettysburg College collectively) will advance quickly in the rankings, and you will advance in your programming skills!
• You may use a template I've created for efficient I/O based on Kattis' own suggested Java I/O class Kattio.java. I start a problem by copying this template file and renaming the copy problemID.java where problemID is the problem ID of the Kattis problem as given in the end of the URL of the problem page. It is named aaaaaTemplateKattis.java for finding easily in my Eclipse "Kattis" Java project.

Centennial Conference Ranking

Below is a list of Centennial Conference member schools ordered by Kattis ranklist for university*. Swarthmore appears to have duplicated team members, and is likely higher in rank than it should be if those top members have the same problems solved in duplicate accounts. However, we will compete fairly and ethically, so do not create duplicate accounts. Nor should you share/plagiarize solutions. Kattis has built-in plagiarism detection algorithms. Some of the highest-ranked schools have well-known faculty coach accounts (e.g. USD, Hendrix College) counted towards school rank, so this appears to be permitted.

1. Swarthmore College (with duplicate accounts) rank 130*
2. Dickinson College rank 182*
3. Gettysburg College rank 426*
4. Johns Hopkins University rank 628*
5. Haverford College rank 1697*
6. Muhlenberg College rank 1703*
7. Franklin & Marshall rank 2069*
8. Washington College rank 2283*
9. Bryn Mawr rank 2746*
10. McDaniel College and Ursinus College are unranked.*

The top liberal arts colleges that are not in the Centennial Conference:

• Hendrix College rank 26*
• Gustavus Adolfus College rank 101*
• Davidson College rank 126*
• University of Richmond rank 221*
• Denison College rank 440*

Enjoy seeing your and our progress! If you see a need for reordering of this ranking, please contact Todd Neller