Virtual SCPE Spring 2025

Welcome to the fourth Sierra Competitive Programming Exhibition!

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About

The SCPE, or the Sierra Competitive Programming Exhibition, is an introductory contest with problems to solve within a time span, with the goal of teaching you something new. It's hosted by the Sierra College Computer Science Club. We hope that you participate not for bragging rights and prizes, but to learn!

The unranked SCPE is for teams who are not eligible for prizes, such as teams who are not all students or virtual teams, but still want to give the problems a try. Participants are rated on a separate leaderboard from the main event.

Problems are dreamed and written by Jason Feng. https://jasonfeng365.github.io/scpe

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
  • Code directly from our platform, which supports over 30 languages. Learn more here.

There are no limitations on team size or student status for unranked participation. Just have fun and learn something new!

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score.
  • Each problem has hidden test cases, which your code will be run on, but you will not be able to see them. These are meant for you to think critically and make sure your code will work for every case before submitting.

Sign up for Virtual SCPE Spring 2025 now.

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