Student Notes for Competing Using PC^2

One time only: copy /homes/cs390cp/pc2/pc2v9.ini to your local directory somewhere (e.g., ~/pc2).
Change into the directory where your pc2v9.ini file is located.
Launch pc2: /homes/cs390cp/pc2/bin/pc2team &
Log in as teamX/teamX, where X is assigned to you by administrator.

Administrator Notes for Running Programming Competitions with PC^2

Login to cs390cp@pc.cs.purdue.edu
cd pc2 (assumes pc2 is a symlink to current version, pc2-9.3.1; pc2v9.ini edited to point to server at pc.cs.purdue.edu)
pc2reset [if necessary/desired]
pc2server & (assumes pc2/bin is in path)
Login as site1; choose contest password
pc2admin &
Login as administrator1
Languages tab, Add, Auto Populate with Java and GNU C++, possibly GNU C
Accounts tab, Generate accounts (1 judge, x teams, 1 scoreboard)
1. Load account information from file (see http://pc2.ecs.csus.edu/wiki/Load_Account)
2. File generated by web2py in progress/private with dotask genpc2accounts.py

Create snapshot of current pc2 setup
1. Exit pc2 (server and admin)
2. cd ~
3. cp -pr pc2-9.2.3 pc2-contest
cd pc2-contest
rm archive/*
Launch server and admin, login
Problems tab, Add (repeat for each problem)
1. Problem name
2. Problem Requires Input Data, Stdin, Input Data File
3. Judges have Provided Answer File
4. Judging Type tab: Computer judging
5. Validator tab: Use PC^2 validator with option “1 - diff”
Auto judge tab
1. Select judge1, Edit
2. Shift-select all problems, Enable Auto Judging, Update

cd to pc2-contest directory
Relaunch: pc2server and pc2admin
Times tab (pc2admin)
1. Select site1, Edit
2. Set/update remaining, elapsed, and length times
3. Start ALL
bin/pc2judge &
1. Login as judge1/judge1
bin/pc2board &
1. Login as scoreboard1/scoreboard1
firefox html/summary.html