On September 21st 2012, four Australian high school students will travel to Italy to compete in the International Olympiad in Informatics, a two-day ten-hour six-question elite computer programming contest. For the week beforehand, they will undergo intensive training at the University of New South Wales. Their names are Michael Chen, Daniel Goldbach, Joshua Lau and Nicholas Laver. These are their stories.
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
IOI Day
[B G#b E F#7, repeat as necessary]
[Andante, autotuned]
Carpe diem! Waking up in the morning.
Take a deep breath of Lake Garda's air.
Gotta caffeinate, gotta get to breakfast
Eat in parallel, take our showers in serial
Everybody knows that today's a big day;
Gotta get down to the con-test
File onto the bus and
ride to the end
And we've crammed our algos
Read up on our big Os
But our practice time's up--
will our hard work take?
It's IOI day, IOI day,
gotta ace IOI day
Contest starts; we've gotta hold back
from the keyboard, keyboard
"Patience," we say,
"pulls us through IOI day!"
And we find something we can code up
that's our reward,
Function here, function there (yeah!)
Reams of code, everywhere (yeah!)
** One, ze-ro, one,
** that's IOI in binary
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