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Student Notes for Competing Using PC^2

One time only: copy /homes/cs390cp/pc2-9.1.6/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/pc2-9.1.6/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, pc2-9.1.6)
pc2reset [if necessary/desired]
pc2server & (assumes pc2/bin is in path)
Login as site1/site1; choose contest password
pc2admin &
Login as administrator1/administrator1
Accounts tab, Generate accounts (1 judge, x teams, 1 scoreboard)
Optional:
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
Languages tab, Add, Auto Populate with Java and GNU C++, possibly GNU C
Problems tab, Add
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

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