Computer Programming Contests
ECOO organizes programming contests for Ontario secondary school students. A free online practice contest, DWITE, is available as a preparation for the ECOO contests. All of the contests are free of charge to students and consist of five (labeled 0 to 4) problems to be solved in three hours. Programs are to input .txt files and output onto the screen. Part marks are given to partially correct outputs and a time-bonus is also alloted for every five minutes before the end of the contest when submitted. Each team can have a maximum of four members from the same school. The ECOO contests consist of three parts:
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