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USACO Bronze/Silver Classes offered for Spring 2024
By vrooooom, history, 5 months ago, In English

The Competitive Programming Initiative will be offering the Spring 2024 live bronze and silver courses!

Check out https://joincpi.org/classes for full details and to register!

Dates & Timings

  • Bronze: Saturdays during Feb 3rd — April 20th from 4:00 PM — 6:00 PM PDT
  • Silver: Sundays during Feb 4th — April 21st from 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM PDT

Classes will skip USACO weekends (Feb 17/18 and March 16/17)

Why should you sign up for our classes?

  • The entire course costs $100 for weekly live classes, office hours, and access to our curriculum created by past USACO finalists!
  • Financial aid is also available! If you apply, just know that we're generous when it comes to financial aid requests 😉
  • There is a leaderboard system to incentivize friendly competition!
  • Office hours on Zoom are offered twice every week, where students can personally ask instructors any question

Hope to see you in class!

The Competitive Programming Initiative

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I like the initiative, but...

Both C++ and Java are acceptable for the class. While our class will primarily use Java, instructors are fully able to assist C++ users as well.

That's a red flag if I ever saw one. IOI for instance only allows C++.

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    idk if this is just me, but Java tends to be harder to get accepted due to its slow runtime, which often leads to TLE on problems where C++ works, started off with Java and did really bad for a while, but switching to C++ saw me a considerable success(compared to before)

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    You have a point, instructor's generally use whichever language they are most comfortable with, which tends to be C++ recently.

    Website is a bit old, I'll have it updated soon. Thanks for lmk!

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X-Camp orz!!! Ench_Lolz & maxrgby & AlwaysAcing and other X-Camp students definitely stand with me on this. This class does sound interesting though if I was still in Silver.

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    what

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    as a CPI instructor i disagree and i most definitely do not stand with you on this and this definitely is not related in any way to me trying to farm volunteer hours

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      wait u can get volunteer hours from working as a CPI instructor?! :notlikeduck:

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        we get paid in volunteer hours instead of money

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          WAIT I GOTTA DO THAT WHEN I GO INTO HIGH SCHOOL

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