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====== 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 ======

===== Account Setup =====

  - 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)
    - Load account information from file (see http://pc2.ecs.csus.edu/wiki/Load_Account)
    - File generated by web2py in progress/private with dotask genpc2accounts.py

===== Before Weekly Class =====

  - Create snapshot of current pc2 setup
    - Exit pc2 (server and admin)
    - cd ~
    - 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)
    - Problem name
    - Problem Requires Input Data, Stdin, Input Data File
    - Judges have Provided Answer File
    - Judging Type tab: Computer judging
    - Validator tab: Use PC^2 validator with option "1 - diff"
  - Auto judge tab
    - Select judge1, Edit
    - Shift-select all problems, Enable Auto Judging, Update

===== In Class =====

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

===== After Competition =====

  - pc2reset
  - Copy archive into main directory (~/pc2-9.2.3)
  - Remove pc2-contest