Greater China Computing
Competition 2020
Contest Details
Eligibility
You may participate as an official contestant if you meet the following criteria:
- registered as a full-time student in Form 4-6 or Grade 10-13 in a secondary school in Hong Kong
- you must be born on or after July 1, 2000.
* Note that only contestants who compete in the Senior contest are eligible for invitation to the Stage 2 contest.
How to Apply?
Students who are interested should contact their teachers/school headmaster and do the ONLINE REGISTRATION.
Programming Languages
For the Stage 1 contest, contestants will work with PC in a lab. We provide the following programming development platforms:
Competition Rules
- Books and written materials are allowed. Machine-readable material is not allowed. (Online help facilities are allowed if built into the programming language package.)
- During the Competition, each contestant will be provided with a computer to use. There is to be no communication between contestants, nor should any contestant access resources of any type outside the competition site (in particular, no Internet access will be provided.)
- The Competition is composed of 5 programming questions. For these programs, it is the performance on the test data which determines the score. Each contestant may choose either to solve the 5 Junior level problems or the 5 Senior level problems. Only one set of problems (Junior or Senior) may be marked per contestant, and only those who participates in the Senior level problems will be considered for winning the grand prize (i.e., a $5000 or $1000 cash prize).
- Each contestant is allowed exactly three hours working time.
- The contestants are encouraged to keep the Competition papers.
- No contestants arriving later than 5:30pm will be allowed to join the contest.
Decision Rights
The organizers reserve all rights to all final decisions in this contest.
Topics Covered
| Junior | selection, repetition, arrays, recursion, data structures |
|---|---|
| Senior | string manipulation, recursion, optimization, simulation, geometry, enumeration, sorting, searching, graph search, dynamic programming |
Please view the Problems, Tests and Solutions posted on the website of the University of Waterloo here for details.
About GCCC
GCCC is a privileged IT test co-organized by HKU and Tsinghua University for local young talents in IT. It is a new chapter of Canadian Computing Competition (CCC), a de facto IT test for thousands of high school students across China, Canada and Hong Kong each year. In the past fifteen years, HKUCS recognizes CCC as an excellent opportunity for Hong Kong students to test and exercise their problem solving and programming skills. This vision is now realized by GCCC.
