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Introduction To Competitive Programming Handout

The course on Competitive Programming aims to enhance problem-solving skills and provide essential techniques, algorithms, and data structures for participation in competitions. It covers various topics over five weeks, including complexity analysis, recursion, dynamic programming, and graph theory. Evaluation consists of weekly problems and a final contest, with a strong emphasis on engagement and collaboration among participants.

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Introduction To Competitive Programming Handout

The course on Competitive Programming aims to enhance problem-solving skills and provide essential techniques, algorithms, and data structures for participation in competitions. It covers various topics over five weeks, including complexity analysis, recursion, dynamic programming, and graph theory. Evaluation consists of weekly problems and a final contest, with a strong emphasis on engagement and collaboration among participants.

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Introduction to Competitive

Programming
Course Instructors

Naman Agarwal

Nirmal Govindaraj

Siddhant Kulkarni

Vishesh Goyal

Scope and Objective of the Course


The main focus of the course is to improve problem-solving skills and provide an essential toolbox of
various techniques, algorithms and data structures to help participate in various competitive programming
competitions and platforms.

Expectations
We strongly encourage attending all the sessions and solving all the weekly mashups. We also
encourage you ask doubts on the course WhatsApp group and engage in discussions with mentors and
peers.

💡 We recommend getting familiar with C++ before the start of the course

Week Topics Covered

Complexity Analysis, Greedy, STL (Arrays, Stacks, Queues,


Week 1 (might extend to the next week) Vectors, Maps, Sets, Heap, Strings), Sliding Window, Two
Pointers

Binary Search, Basic Number Theory (Primality Testing, Sieve,


Week 2
Prime Factors)
Introduction to Recursion, Divide and Conquer, Backtracking
Week 3 and 4
and Dynamic Programming
Week 5 Introduction to Graphs and Trees

Evaluation
Component Weightage Description

~10 weekly problems relevant to


Weekly Codeforces Mashup 15% for each week
the topics covered in that week

Final contest conducted on


Final Contest 25% HackerRank after the end of the
course

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