Extreme Programming

This is an extracurricular activity that fosters your programming skills and algorithmic thinking, and communication skills regarding programming. These capabilities are often key to yield high-profile jobs from, e.g., Silicon Valley companies like Google.

The club to which everyone – both, little or significant programming skills – is welcome, aims to:

1. boost your programming confidence
2. prepare you better for potential future jobs and programming competitions
3. show that the algorithmic problem solving is fun!

Generally, the agenda for the meetings is as follows:

1. we discuss the problems that have been issued in the last meeting, having one of you present the approach/a solution, potentially me to provide suggestions/solution approach.
2. two new problems are introduced (one easy and one hard). These problems are to be solved alone or in teams that you may form using the programming language of *your choice*.
3. we discuss the coarse-grained solution to these problems
4. we discuss a data structure or algorithm, perform live coding of a problem, etc.

There is room to discuss your own programming issues or ideas.

• 2020-10-14
  • Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
• 2020-10-07 – Starting of the autumn term
  • Live coding, discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
• 2020-02-13
  • Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
• 2020-02-06
  • Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
• 2020-01-30
  • Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
• 2020-01-23
  • Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/boatparts
• 2020-01-16
  • Search problem
• 2019-12-05
  • Discussed basic problems
• 2019-11-28 (We now moved to Thursday!)
  • Discussed array handling
• 2019-11-19
  • Discussed basic problems
• 2019-11-05
  • Discussed basic problems
• 2019-10-29:
  • Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/speedlimit

• 2019-10-15
  • Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/pet
  • Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/hissingmicrophone

• 2019-10-08
  • Discussed: 3DPrinter https://open.kattis.com/problems/3dprinter
  • Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/timeloop
  • Easy homework: https://open.kattis.com/problems/encodedmessage

• 2019-03-12

• 2019-02-27

• 2019-02-18: We will start Monday 9:30 as part of the 2019 Computer Science Hackathon and Showcase event

• 2019-02-13: at 16:00 in G56
  • Based on the wishes of attendees: Excursion through sorting.

• 2019-02-06: at 16:00 in G56
• Live coding of some pseudo code in Java (an example problem given by class CS2NN and Yusuf).
• Focusing on the last week's problems again.

• 2019-01-30: at 15:00 in G56 (first Spring-Term meeting)
  • Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/battlesimulation
  • Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/dungeon
  • Hard: https://open.kattis.com/problems/classrooms
  • We will discuss the concepts of finate state automaton and recapitulate path-finding

• 2018-12-11: at 16:00 in G56
  • Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/avoidingtheapocalypse
  • Shortest-path-algorithm Dijstra
  • Easy:
    • Simulation loop: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/10
    • Windowing: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/11

• 2018-12-04: at 16:00 in G56
  • We'll have a look at the AdventOfCode
    • Easy: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/1
    • https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/2
    • https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/3
  • Presentation of results of last weeks easy/medium problems
  • Live coding:
    • Implementing scanf (because scanf is annoying).
    • Summer of code examples
  • Medium task: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/4

• 2018-11-28: at 16:00 in G56
  • Presentation of results of last weeks easy/medium problems
  • Discussion and live coding of: https://open.kattis.com/problems/3dprinter (Easy problem)
  • Home challenges
    • Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/2048
    • Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/10kindsofpeople
  • Discussion of data structures: arrays and stacks
  • 10 students attended

• 2018-11-21: at 16:00 in G43
  • The home challenges were
  • Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/sevenwonders
  • Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/stickysituation
  • Hard: https://open.kattis.com/problems/marchofpenguins
  • See also the summary at the CS blog