Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

CUET Competitive Programmer’s Syllabus

A guideline for the students of CUET for
‘Competitive Programming’

CUET Computer Club

Prepared By
Md. Billal Hossain (Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, CUET)
Omar Sharif (Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, CUET)
Jannatul Ferdows Jenny (‘12), Tahsin Rahman (‘13), Yamin Iqbal (‘14)
Rian (‘15), Avijeet (‘15), Ishtiaq (‘16), Mehedi (‘16), Eftikhar (‘16), Rony
(‘16), Tapojit (‘16), Rajon (‘16), Tajir (‘16), Maruf (‘16), Sayem (‘16)
Ahasan (’17), Fariha (’17), Robin (’17), Shawly (’17), Tasfia (’17)
 CUET Competitive Programmer’s Syllabus
About:
This is a guideline for the Competitive Programmers of CUET in accordance with
their academic calendar. It contains the topics that must be covered within first two years
if you want to qualify for the world finals. The syllabus is divided into four terms. Each
term covers some topic containing detailed tutorials and problem links. Level-1 Term-1
covers the basics of programming Language. Level-1 Term-2 is the most crucial part since
it introduces the basic idea of data structures/algorithms. In Level-2, intermediate/some
advanced topics are covered. The syllabus of Level-3 and Level-4 is not provided here. It’s
your own duty to find out your lacking and focus/specialize on them. The links provided
here will help you in a great deal but there might be many more resources. So always
keep yourself up-to-date.

Goal:
To see CUETians in ICPC World Finals. 

Shortcuts:
1. Level-1 Term-1
2. Level-1 Term-2
3. Level-2 Term-1
4. Level-2 Term-2
5. Level-3 & Level-4

Some Important Links:

1. Code Templates
2. Resources in Bengali
3. Books Related to Competitive Programming

Contact:
For any constructive feedback send an email to
1. Md. Billal Hossain ([email protected])
2. Omar Sharif ([email protected])
 Term wise Syllabus
Level-1 Term-1
Tentative Class Schedule:
Week Topic
1 Variables, Data Types, Scanf/Printf, Format Specifier
2 If-else, Nested If-else
3 Loop Basics: While, Do-while, For-loop
4 Nested Loop, Break, Continue
5 Loop Advanced: Loop+If-else
Online Contest-1
6 Array: 1D, 2D
7 Character Array, String
8 Function, Recursion
9 Binary Search + Others
10 STL Basic
Online Contest-2

Guidelines:
● Get complete idea about C
● Get basic idea about C++
● Try to implement what you think
● Must participate in Long-Contests (Upto 5 days) that will be held after each class
● Take help from your Batch-mates, Seniors and Teachers if needed

Expectations:
● Able to implement your idea
● Familiarize with all online judges
● Read Tamim Shahriar Subeen’s Book completely
● Solve all the problems of LightOJ beginner’s category
● Total Number of problems solved: 200+
● CF rating:
-At the start: 900+
-At the end: 1200+
Tips:
● Learn about different good resources as well. Geeksforgeeks, emaxx, competitive
programming 3, Mahbubul Hasan Shanto vai’s book on programming contest,
Shafaet Ashraf vai’s blog. These are good, but not just these-there are others.
Google is your friend.
● Spend around an hour or two at each problem before searching for solutions
online. Not more than that, because what is important for you at this stage is to
solve more and more problems, and if you spend all your day at one problem, your
overall solve count will be low and you will not learn much. But make sure that you
spend this time wisely-when we say we have worked for an hour, what happens in
reality is that we have worked for just 20 minutes in total, and the other 40 minutes
have been wasted away via other ‘useful’ procrastination. Perhaps learn to adopt
the Pomodoro method.
● After seeing the solution to a problem, make sure to understand the solution fully
and absolutely. There should be no doubt regarding anything with the solution,
and if there is, that means you have not understood it fully/internalized it. Problem
solving is more about pattern matching, and being able to match an unseen
problem with problems that you have seen before-but if you haven’t internalized
the solution to the problems that you couldn’t solve by yourself, you have then
actually just memorized it, and memorized stuff doesn’t actually stay in your mind
for long-and you won’t be able to recognize patterns later as well.
 Tutorials & Problems List for Level-1 Term-1
(1-1) Week 1 (Variables, Data types, Scanf/Printf, Format Specifier)
Tutorials:
1. [প্রোগ্রোম িং বইঃ অধ্যোয় দুই] ডোটো টোইপ, ইনপু ট ও আউটপু ট।
2. List of all format specifiers in C programming
3. Data Types in C
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Eds2Rc_x
Problems:
1. Codeforces: 1A, 99999100
2. Atcoder: ABC153A, ABC-148A
3. Hackerrank: Playing with Characters
4. URI: 1001,1002,1006,1015,1019

(1-1) Week 2 (If else, Nested If else)

Tutorials:
1. Decision Making in C / C++ (if , if..else, Nested if, if-else-if )
2. কমিউটোর প্রোগ্রোম িং বই: [প্রোগ্রোম িং বইঃ অধ্যোয় মিন] কমিশনোল লমিক।
Problems:
1. Codeforces: 122A, 263A
2. Codechef: LEAP, EO, ASET002
3. Atcoder: ABC152A, ABC065A
4. URI: 2582
5. UVA: 11172
6. Hackerrank: Conditional Statements in C

(1-1) Week 3 (Loop Basics: While, Do-While, For-loop)

Tutorials:
1. [প্রোগ্রোম িং বইঃ অধ্যোয় চোর] লু প (Loop)।
2. Loops in C and C++
Problems:
1. DimikOJ: Problem 6, Problem 3, Problem 5
2. Timus: 1149
3. LightOJ: 1000, 1022, 1216
4. Codeforces: 99999123, 791A, 977A
 (1-1) Week 4 (Nested Loop, Break, Continue)
Tutorials:
1. Nested Loops in C with Examples
2. Difference between continue and break statements in C++
Problems:
1. CodeChef: BICBPAT1, PPATTERN
2. URI: 1189, 1190, 1183, 1435, 1478, 1186, 1188
3. Hackerrank: Printing Pattern using Loops

(1-1) Week 5 (Loop Advanced: Loop + If-else)

Tutorials:
1. [প্রোগ্রোম িং বইঃ অধ্যোয় চোর] লু প (Loop)।
Problems:
1. Codechef: LEAPY
2. Atcoder: 079A
3. Timus: 1083, 1209
4. LightOJ: 1001, 1015, 1053, 1008
5. URI: 1557, 1187

(1-1) Week 6 (Array: 1D, 2D)

Tutorials:
1. অযোরর - Array Archives - হোসোরনর রোফখোিো
2. Fred: C++ Notes: Table of Contents (See the Arrays section)
3. অযোরর করেশন
4. 1-D Tutorials & Notes | Data Structures (try to solve some problem from this
problem section)
5. How to visualize multidimensional arrays
6. Array Data Structure
7. Lecture Notes on Arrays
Problems:
1. UVA: 10038 (Jolly Jumpers), 414 (Machined Surfaces), 665 (False coin), 467
(Synching Signals), 10703 (Free spots), 10855 (Rotated square), 10920 (Spiral
Tap),11349 (Symmetric Matrix), 11581 (Grid Successors), 12187 (Brothers)
2. Codeforces: 1213B, 1265B, 1279C
 3. Codechef: SALARY

(1-1) Week 7 (Character Array, String)

Tutorials:
1. Strings in C
2. Strings in C (With Examples)
3. C++ Strings
4. string - C++ Reference
5. C++ Strings
Problems:
1. Codeforces: 71A, 1146A, 118A, 1139A, 1223B, 1243B1, 448B, 1151A, 165C,
1243B2, 1268A, 1153C

(1-1) Week 8 (Function, Recursion)

Tutorials:
1. মরকোশশন (Recursion)
2. recursion Archives - হোসোরনর রোফখোিো
3. recursion_and_dp - smilitude
4. Recursion and Backtracking Tutorials & Notes | Basic Programming
Problems:
1. UVA: 624, 167, 539, 729, 750, 628, 10276, 11085, 574, 524, 10063, 10503, 301,
331, 193, 129, 208, 416, 861, 1262

(1-1) Week 9 (Binary Search + Others)

Tutorials:
1. Binary search implementation (Implementation variations)
2. Binary Search
3. Binary Search Practice Problems | Algorithms | page 1
4. বোইনোমর সোচশ অযোলগমরদ - Binary Search Algorithm
5. Ternary Search Tutorials & Notes | Algorithms
6. Ternary Search and its Applications
7. The great ternary search hoax
Problems:
1. Codeforces: 492B, 474B, 195B, 1221C, 1183C, 371C, 812C, 706B, 580B, 340D,
75C, 448D, 1250J, 616D, 1077D
 2. LightOJ: 1043, 1072, 1307, 1138, 1088,1048, 1137, 1235,1383, 1146, 1240
3. Spoj: AGGRCOW, ACTIV
4. Codechef: MCO16503, KGP16G

(1-1) Week 10 (STL Basic)

Tutorials:
1. Power up C++ with the Standard Template Library: Part I
2. Power up C++ with the Standard Template Library: Part II: Advanced Uses
3. stl - smilitude
4. স্ট্যোিোডশ প্টরেট লোইরেরী
5. C++ STL (Bangla)
6. STL
Problems:
1. UVA: 146, 10107, 514, 10935, 484, 10815, 10954, 400, 10194, 127, 540, 1203,
12058, 855, 11321, 10264, 732, 1062, 10172, 978
 Level-1 Term-2
Tentative Class Schedule:
Week Topic
1 Basic Math, Modular arithmetic, Big-mod, Modular inverse
2 Number Theory: Sieve, Prime Factorization, Number of divisors
3 Recursion, Backtracking, Tail-call recursion
4 Greedy Techniques, Task Scheduling, Kadani’s Algorithm
5 Basic DP (Recursive/Iterative dp, knapsack, LIS)
Online Contest-1
6 Advanced STL
7 Graph Basics: BFS/DFS
8 Shortest Path: Dijkstra, Floyd-Warshal, Bellman-Ford
9 Topological Sort, Tree-Diameter
10 Basic Geometry
Online Contest-2

Guidelines:
● Participate in online contest
● Upsolve problems after attending online contest
● Try to attend and do well in onsite contest

Expectations:
● Total Number of problems solved: 300+
● CF rating:
-At the start: 1200+
-At the end: 1500+
Tips:
● Learning how to think is important at this stage. You should have gotten a feel for
determining how much time you should give to each problem in order to learn
properly-however, we would say do not make it less than 30 minutes, and
definitely not more than 90 minutes. But make sure that you have utilized that
time of thinking fully-many of us do not utilize this time fully and do not realize it.
Learn to think in a IDA* approach, that is, realizing all problems have an easy
solution, and can be solved in a few steps. If you find your train of thought getting
too complex, or taking too many steps/difficult to visualize, then it is likely not
correct, and if it is, it is most definitely not the intended solution. Learn to abandon
current train of thought as soon as you realize that it may be getting too complex
for you-these problems are made for humans by humans, not for Einsteins by
Einsteins.
● You should have also realized that this competitive programming business is no
joke. The future world finalists are currently working very hard, and while you are
watching movies/browsing the net, they are currently solving problems at their
ACM Room. You should spend most of times on thinking about problems. You can
also think about problems when eating, bathing or even before sleeping
● Also, do not pick too hard problems, problems in the difficulty range where you
find yourself seeking the solution almost every time. Even if you feel that you have
understood the solution fully, you may not have fully internalized it-and possibly
even indirectly memorize it. Ideally you must pick problems, that, if they were to
appear in a contest, you can almost get the idea, but couldn’t get a clear picture of
the full solution within contest time.
● And at the minimum, do every CF contests. Even if there is a CT the next day. Solve
the problems that you couldn’t solve the next day. This is very, very, very
important. This is called upsolving, and upsolve the next one or two problems that
you couldn’t solve in contest time. Perhaps leave the others for now.
● Please do look at the official solution (editorials) of problems, even if you have
managed to solve one by yourself. You may find new ideas/trick there. Make a
habit of learning from other people’s code too.
● Look at other people’s code to learn new tips/tricks after solving a problem.
● And do hide CF tags. 50% of solving a problem is about identifying the correct
category of the problem, and you’ll be stunted in this respect.
Expected Number of Problems solved (including previous semester)- 500 at the very
least, more like 1000 if you hope for qualifying for WF in the future.

Tutorials & Problems List for Level-1 Term-2

(1-2) Week 1 (Basic Math, Modular arithmetic, Big-mod, Modular inverse)
Tutorials: (Basic Math)
1. Understanding class 1-12 math is enough
2. Euclidean Algorithm - Greatest Common Divisor
3. Lowest Common Multiple of Two Number
Problems: (Basic Math)
1. LightOJ: Basic math category
2. Codeforces: Math tag ordered by rating

Tutorials: (Modular Arithmetic & Big-Mod)

1. ডু লোর অযোমরথর টিক
2. Introduction to Modular Arithmetic
3. Powerful tricks with calculation modulo
Problems: (Modular Arithmetic & Big-Mod)
1. LightOJ: 1067, 1054, 1102, 1419
2. UVA: 374, 10127, 128, 10176, 10212, 10489, 11029

Tutorials: (Modular Inverse)

1. Modular Multiplicative Inverse
2. Modular Inverse
Problems: (Modular Inverse)
1. UVA: 11904
2. CF: 300C, 622F, 717A, 896D

(1-2) Week 2 (Number Theory: Sieve, Prime Factorization, Number of divisors)

Tutorials: (Number Theory)
1. Category Archives: Number Theory
2. Sieve of Eratosthenes How Many Divisors of a Number
3. Generate Divisors of N (Move to 2-1)
4. A Bunch of Stuff : Number Theory in Competitive Programming [Tutorial]
(Optional)
Tutorials: (Sieve)
1. রোই প্িনোররটর (Sieve of Eratosthenes)
2. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Generating Primes
3. Sieve of Eratosthenes
Problems: (Sieve)
1. LightOJ: 1035, 1028

Tutorials: (Bitwise Sieve)

1. মবটওয়োইজ্ মসভ(Bitwise sieve)

Problems: (Bitwise Sieve)

1. SPOJ: TDPRIMES

Tutorials: (Segmented Sieve)

2. Segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes
3. Book: Programming Contest, Data Structure and Algorithm – Mahbubul Hasan
Shanto (segmented sieve topic, page-55)
Problems: (Segmented Sieve)
1. SPOJ: PRIME1, PAGAIN
2. LightOJ: 1197

Tutorials: (Prime Factorization)

1. Prime Factorization of an Integer
Problems: (Prime Factorization)
1. UVA:
● EASY: 583, 160, 993, 10299, 11466
● MEDIUM: 10392, 10179, 10139, 10484
● HARD: 10622, 10680, 11347

Tutorials: (Number of Divisors)

1. Number of Divisors of an Integer
Problems: (Number of Divisiors)
1. SPOJ: COMDIV

(1-2) Week 3 (Recursion, Backtracking, Tail-call recursion)

Tutorials:
 1. Attacking Recursions
2. প্টইল-কল মরকোশশন অপটি োইরিশন
3. মরকোমসশভ ফোিংশরনর প্সৌন্দর্শ - ১
4. https://youtu.be/J8mChdOJWOs
Problems:
1. UVa: 624, 750, 10576, 11085, 524, 574, 10503, 193, 416, 10094

(1-2) Week 4 (Greedy Techniques, Task Scheduling, Kadani’s Algorithm)

Tutorials: (Greedy)
1. Greedy is Good
2. Basics of Greedy Algorithms Tutorials & Notes | Algorithms
3. Greedy Algorithms
Problems: (Greedy)
1. BAPS Greedy and Searching Problem List
2. Easy:
● CF - 479C
● SPOJ – GERGOVIA
● CF - 58B
● UVA – 410
● POJ - 1328
3. Medium:
● SPOJ – MSCHED
● CF - 313C
● SPOJ – CMIYC
● SPOJ – DRAGON
● CF - 166C
● Hackerrank - Goodland Electricity
4. Hard:
● CF - 316A1
● Codechef - Protecting The Poison
● CF - 794C
● SPOJ – TROOPS
● A2OJ-306
Tutorials: (Task Scheduling)
1. Activity Selection Problem | Greedy Algo-1
2. Weighted Job Scheduling
 3. Job Sequencing Problem
4. Page Replacement Algorithms in Operating Systems
5. Activity Selection Problem
Problems: (Task Scheduling)
1. Easy:
● CSES - 1630
● CSES - 1629
● CSES - 1619
2. Medium:
● CSES - 1164
● Leetcode - 452
● SPOJ - MIA14B
3. Hard:
● CF(gym) - 101498F

Tutorials: (Kadane’s Algorithm)

1. Search the subarray with the maximum/minimum sum
2. Kadane’s Algorithm — (Dynamic Programming) — How and Why does it Work?
3. Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray
Problems: (Kadane’s Algorithm)
1. Easy:
● CSES – 1643
● UVA – 507
● UVA – 10684
● Timus - 1146
2. Medium :
● UVA – 787
● CodeForces - 75D

(1-2) Week 5 (Basic DP-Recursive/Iterative dp, knapsack, LIS)

Tutorials:
1. ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং – ১ (মফরবোনোমি)
2. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrmLmBdmIlpsHaNTPP_jHHDx_os9ItY
Xr&app=desktop
3. Dynamic Programming: From Novice to Advanced
4. Tutorial for Dynamic Programming
 5. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0KD3g-
oDOGJUdmhFk19LaPgrfmAGQfo&app=desktop
Problems:
1. UVa - 787, 10684, 108, 11951, 10827, 111, 481, 11456, 10130, 10616, 674
2. CF - DP tag

(1-2) Week 6 (Advanced STL)

Tutorials:
1. https://ishtiaqhimu.blogspot.com/2020/10/standard-template-library-stl.html
2. Containers - C++ Reference
Problems:
1. UVa - 514, 732, 1062, 10172, 10901, 11034, 11572, 11308, 978, 11849, 1203,
11995
2. SPOJ - CTRICK
3. Timus - 1521

(1-2) Week 7 (Graph Basics: BFS/DFS)

Tutorials:
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি - ১ | শোফোরয়রির ব্লগ
2. Graph Editor (for graph drawing)
3. Depth First Search (DFS) (Silver) (***)
4. Breadth First Search (BFS) (Gold) (***)
5. me-shaon/bangla-programming-resources: Bangla tutorial, reference and
resource list on programming topics (graph theory portion)
6. Programming Camp 2020 Session 3: Graph Theory
7. https://mehedi6022.blogspot.com/2019/02/breadth-first-search.html (BFS)
8. https://mehedi6022.blogspot.com/2020/02/0-1-bfs_11.html (0/1 bfs)
9. POTW (see Graph Theory I)
10. Video Tutorial (BAPS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xswqISXxAC4&list=PLWtSipmftM8pGx7rR
9xviLokw29kG_s-2&index=9
11. (Code):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW85xQ6GJP4&list=PL2q4fbVm1Ik6DCz
m9XZJbNwyHtHGclcEh
Problems:
1. Easy
 ● BFS/DFS Category( LightOJ)
● Building Roads
● USACO
● Message Route
2. Medium:
● USACO (Flood Fill)
● USACO
● CSES-1668(Bicoloring), 1682 (Directed dfs)
● USACO
● Counting Rooms (Flood Fill)
● Icy Perimeter (Flood Fill)
● Where’s BESSIE?(Flood Fill)
● Why Did the Cow Cross the Road III (Flood Fill)
● Labyrinth
● Tree Diameter
● Subordinates (DFS on Tree)
● Codeforces: 862B,
● https://csacademy.com/contest/archive/task/bfs-dfs
● DCP-60: Holloween Party Back to All Problems (0/1 bfs)
● Building Teams
● Round Trip
● Monsters
● SPOJ.com - Problem AKBAR
3. Hard:
● USACO
● USACO
4. More Problems:
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/bfs
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/grids
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/bipartite-graphs
● codeforces上的一个题单（原版改）
● Problem Topics

(1-2) Week 8 (Shortest Path: Dijkstra, Floyd-Warshal, Bellman-Ford)

Tutorials:
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি-৯ (ডোয়োক্সট্রো)
2. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ১০: ফ্লরয়ড ওয়োশশল
 3. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ১১: প্বল ্র্োন প্ফোডশ
4. Bellman-Ford Algorithm - shortest paths with negative weights
5. Dijkstra Algorithm
6. Shortest Paths with Non-Negative Edge Weights (Gold)
7. Video Tutorial with code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnpzCnSDSY&list=PL2q4fbVm1Ik64I3Vqb
VGRfl_OgYzvzt9m&index=7
8. (Tushar Roy):
Bellman-Ford Algorithm Single Source Shortest Path Graph Algorithm
Problems:
1. Easy:
● CSES Problem Set - Tasks (solve Shortest Routes II to Investigation)
● Cycle Detection
● Shortest Path
● Floyd - Warshall + Transitive closure
2. Medium-Hard:
● Birthday Gift (Dijkstra)
● Dijkstra/Floyd Warshall Category( LightOJ)
● Bellman Ford Category( LightOJ)
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/shortest-paths-dags
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/shortest-paths-single-source
● https://progvar.fun/problemsets/shortest-paths-single-source-negative-
weights
● ProgVar.Fun
● https://vjudge.net/contest/341347#overview

(1-2) Week 9 (Topological Sort, Tree-Diameter)

Tutorials: (Topological Sort)
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ৭:টরপোরলোমিকোল সটশ
2. Topological Sorting
3. টরপোলমিকোল সটশ - smilitude

Problems: (Topological Sort)

1. TOPOSORT - Topological Sorting
2. UVa - 10305 - Ordering Tasks
3. UVa - 124 - Following Orders
5. UVa - 200 - Rare Order
6. Problem - 510C
 7. UVa - 11060 - Beverages
8. PFDEP - Project File Dependencies
9. Course Schedule
10. RPLA - Answer the boss!
11. UVa - 452 - Project Scheduling
Tutorials: (Tree Diameter)
1. ট্রি ডোয়োম টোর
2. Tree Diameter — Why Does Two BFS Solution Work? | by Tarek Badr
Problems: (Tree Diameter)
1. LightOJ-1094
2. LOJ-1257
3. UVa - 10459
4. 102694A - 3 - Circumference of a Tree
5. Codeforces -102694B

(1-2) Week 10 (Basic Geometry)

Before Starting:
7. Go through and understand every theorem in secondary school (These theorems
are must for solving, analyzing geometry problems). Ensure a better
understanding and clear concept of vector geometry, straight lines, conics
(These topics are covered in intermediate).
8. If you have done 1, go through this book “ Handbook of geometry for
competitive programmers ”

Tutorials:
1. Programming-Problem-In-Bengali/Geometry Resources.md at master ·
hasancse91/Programming-Problem-In-Bengali
2. Read “Geometry Concepts” tutorials in topcoder Community - Competitive
Programming - Tutorials
3. Geometry Algorithms Home
4. Basic Geometry
5. Geometry: 2D points and lines [Tutorial]
6. Geometric Algorithms
Problems:
1. Lightoj (Category - “Basic Geometry”)
2. grep+: UVA problems keyword search
3. https://progvar.fun/problemsets/geometry-basics
 Level-2 Term-1
Tentative Class Schedule:
Week Topic
1 Number theory: Extended Euclidean, Euler phi, inverse phi, factorizing n!
2 Graph: SCC, MST
3 Graph: Bicoloring, Bipartite Matching
4 Data Structure: Segment Tree, Lazy
5 Data Structure: BIT, LCA
6 Data Structure: Trie
Online Contest-1
7 Pattern Matching: KMP, Z-algo
8 DP: LCS, LIS, Matrix-Chain Multiplication
9 DP: Bitmask DP, Digit-DP
10 Geometry: Convex Hull
Online Contest-2

Guidelines:
● Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat…

Expectations:
● Total Number of problems solved: 300+
● CF rating:
-At the start: 1500+
-At the end: 1800+

Tips:
● By now you must have formed stable teams. You must take part in team contests
regularly-at least one every week. Select 2 star contests from CF gym at the
beginning, and slowly move on to 3 star contests. Or you may select contests
from Timus as well. Discussing unsolved problems after the contest is important
too, make sure to solve them. Maintain spreadsheets containing daily logs of
what one has solved.
Expected number of problems solved (including previous semester)-800 at the very
least. Highly motivated people can go for 1500. You can do it.
 Tutorials & Problems List for Level-2 Term-1
(2-1) Week 1 (Number theory: Extended Euclidean, Euler phi, inverse phi,
factorizing n!)
Tutorials: (Extended Euclidean)
1. Extended Euclidean Algorithm
2. Extended Euclidean Algorithm
Problems: (Extended Euclidean)
1. UVa – Uva-10104, Uva-10090, Uva-10633, Uva-12775
2. Codeforces Gym – 100963J

Tutorials: (Euler Phi/totient function)

1. Euler's totient function
2. Euler Totient or Phi Function
Problems: (Euler Phi/totient function)
1. SPOJ – ETF, TIP1, ETFS, ETFD, LCMSUM, GCDEX, DCEPCA03, NAJPWG, INVPHI
2. UVa – Uva-10179, 10299, 11327, Uva-10990, 13132, Uva-12995
3. Codechef – COZIE
4. LightOJ – 1007

Tutorials: (Factorizing n!)

1. Prime Factorization of Factorial
Problems: (Factorizing n!)
1. LightOJ – 1035

(2-1) Week 2 (Graph: SCC, MST)

Tutorials: (SCC)
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ১৪ – স্ট্রিংমল কোরনরেড করিোরনন্ট (Recommended)
2. Strongly Connected Components and Condensation graph (Recommended)
3. Strongly Connected Components Tutorials & Notes | Algorithms
4. Tarjan's Algorithm to find Strongly Connected Components
Problems: (SCC)
1. Codechef: CHEFRUN
2. LightOJ: 1034, 1003, 1168, 1210, 1406, 1429, 1390, 1417
3. UVA: 247, 11504, 11709, 11770, 11838, 10731, 1229
 4. SPOJ: TFRIENDS, CAPCITY, ADAPANEL, GOODA
5. DevSkill: DCP-79
6. Codeforces: 22E

Tutorials: (MST)
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ৬: ম মন ো স্প্যোমনিং ট্রি(ক্রুসকোল অযোলগমরদ ) (Kruskal)
2. Minimum spanning tree - Kruskal's algorithm - Competitive Programming
Algorithms (Kruskal)
3. Minimum spanning tree - Kruskal with Disjoint Set Union (Kruskal)
4. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ৫: ম মন ো স্প্যোমনিং ট্রি(মর অযোলরগোমরদ ) (Prims)
5. Minimum spanning tree - Prim's algorithm (Prims)
6. Second Best Minimum Spanning Tree (Second Best MST)
7. Kirchhoff's Theorem (Kirchhoff's Theorem (To Find number of spanning Tree))
Problems: (MST)
1. SPOJ: MST, ULM09, IITKWPCG
2. UVA: Uva-544, Uva-10034, Uva-11228, Uva-908, 11733, 11733, 10462
3. LightOJ: 1002, 1029, 1041, 1040, 1059, 1123
4. Codeforces: 1095F, 160D, 125E
5. Devskill: DCP-344

(2-1) Week 3 (Graph: Bicoloring, Bipartite Matching)

Tutorials:
1. Check whether a graph is bipartite (Bipartite Checking)
2. Matching Algorithms (Graph Theory)
3. Maximum Bipartite Matching by Kuhn's Algorithm (Maximum Bipartite Matching
by Kuhn’s Algorithm)
4. I, ME AND MYSELF !!!: Maximum Matching (Hopcroft) (Hopcroft-Karp)
5. গ্রোফ মথওমর: প্স্ট্বল যোররি রবরল
Problems:
1. UVA: 10004, Uva-11080, Uva-11396, 10505, 10080
2. SPOJ: BUGLIFE
3. LightOJ: 1009, 1149, 1184, 1403, 1201, 1209, 1152, 1304, 1218, 1373, 1206,
1150, 1429, 1242, 1171, 1356
4. Codeforces: 217A, 277A, 862B, 1144F, 1296E1, 664D, 120H, 387D, 468B, 27D,
741C, gym-102006K
5. Atcoder: ABC-131F
6. ProgVar.Fun
 (2-1) Week 4 (Data Structure: Segment Tree, Lazy)
Tutorials:
1. Shafayet Blog (Segment Tree): ডোটো স্ট্রোকচোর: প্সগর ন্ট ট্রি-১
2. Shafayet Blog (Lazy): ডোটো স্ট্রোকচোর: প্সগর ন্ট ট্রি-২ (প্লমি রপোরগশন)
3. Codeforces (Dark knight Blog): Algorithm Gym :: Everything About Segment
Trees
4. CP-Algorithms: Segment Tree
5. Hacker-Earth: Segment Trees Tutorials & Notes | Data Structures
Problems:
1. SPOJ: MULTQ3, SEGSQRSS, CNTPRIME, KGSS, KQUERY, GSS3
2. Codeforces: 52C, 380C, 295A, 339D, 1234D, 356A, 474F, 920F
3. LightOJ: 1080, 1082, 1083, 1085, 1087, 1089, 1093, 1112, 1135, 1183, 1188,
1207

(2-1) Week 5 (Data Structure: BIT, Sparse Table, LCA)

Tutorials:
1. Shafayet BIT: ডোটো স্ট্রোকচোর: বোইনোমর ইনরডক্সড ট্রি (Must read)
2. Shafayet LCA: প্লোরয়স্ট্ ক ন অযোনরসস্ট্র (Must read)
3. Hackerearth: Binary Indexed Tree or Fenwick Tree
4. CF gvikei’s blog: Basic Binary Indexed Tree (English version)
5. Algorithms Live: Episode 0 - Fenwick Trees
6. Hackerrank (RMQ method): Programming Problems and Competitions
7. Binary Lifting Method: Lowest Common Ancestor - Binary Lifting
Problems:
1. ICPCLive: 6139 - Interval Product, 4806 - Bingo!
2. SPOJ: INVCNT, NICEDAY, ADACABAA, SUMSUM, LCA, DQUERY, DISQUERY,
CTRICK, QTREE2
3. LightOJ: 1101, 1112, 1128, 1266, 1348
4. Timus: 1752
5. UVa: 12238, 10938

(2-1) Week 6 (Data Structure: Trie)

Tutorials:
1. ডোটো স্ট্রোকচোর: ট্রোই (মরমফক্স ট্রি/প্রমডক্স ট্রি) (Must read)

2. https://youtu.be/AXjmTQ8LEoI (Must watch)

3. Trie (Keyword Tree) Tutorials & Notes | Data Structures
 4. Tutorial on Trie and example problems - Threads @ IIIT Hyderabad
5. Trie | (Insert and Search)
6. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/qSJN4Ty96P/
7. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WCXNrkqXJJ/
Problems:
8. SPOJ: ADAINDEX, PHONELST, SUBXOR, XORX, TRYCOMP, ADAINDEX
9. Codechef: BANKPASS, SUBXOR
10. POJ: 2001
11. UVALive: 4682, 8015
12. UVA: 11488, 12506
13. LightOJ: 1129, 1269, 1114
14. Codeforces: 282E

(2-1) Week 7 (Pattern Matching: KMP, Z-algo)

Tutorials:
2. Shafayet (KMP): মস্ট্রিং যোমচিং: নু থ- মরসন-রযোট (প্কএ মপ) অযোলগমরদ
3. CP-algorithms (KMP): Prefix function. Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm -
Competitive Programming Algorithms
4. Hackerearth (Z-algo): Z Algorithm Tutorials & Notes | Algorithms
5. CP-algorithms(Z-algo): Z-function and its calculation
6. CF paladin8’s blog: Z Algorithm
Problems:
1. ICPCLive: 6439 - Pasti Pas!
2. LightOJ: 1255, 1258
3. SPOJ: NAJPF
4. Codeforces: 126B, 432D,471D, 808G
5. CodeChef: CDVA1606
6. UVa: 455, 11022, 11452, 11475, 12604, 12467, 11019

(2-1) Week 8 (DP: LCS, LIS, Matrix-Chain Multiplication)

Tutorials:
1. ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং: লিংরগস্ট্ ক ন সোবমসরকোরয়ন্স [পু রোরনো ভোসশন]
2. ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং-৩ (লিংরগস্ট্ ইনমক্রমিিং সোবমসরকোরয়ন্স, পোথ মরমন্টিং)
3. ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং ৪ (লিংরগস্ট্ ক ন সোবমসরকোরয়ন্স)
4. ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং ৭ ( ্র্োট্রিক্স প্চইন োমিমিরকশন)
5. LightOJ: Longest Increasing Subsequence
6. Longest Increasing Subsequence
 7. Matrix Chain Multiplication
8. Matrix Chain Multiplication
Problems:
1. SPOJ: ELIS, LMIS, LCS, NAJLG, ADFRUITS, ROCK, MIXTURES, LISA
2. LightOJ: 1277, 1110, 1157
3. UVa: 481, 231, 10534, 111, 497, 437, 348, 10131, 10066, 12045
4. Codechef: OSQUE, CIRMERGE

(2-1) Week 9 (DP: Bitmask DP, Digit-DP)

Tutorials:
1. মবট োস্ক ডোইনোম ক প্রোগ্রোম িং
2. A little bit of classics: dynamic programming over subsets and paths in graphs
3. Shakil Ahmed's Blog : Digit Dp
4. Digit DP
5. Tutorial for Digit Dp - general
6. Programming Problems and Competitions
7. DP Tutorial and Problem List
Problems:
1. SPOJ: GONE, RAONE, CPCRC1C, LUCIFER, ASSIGN
2. CF: 431D, 628D, 215E
3. LightOJ: 1068, 1122, 1125, 1205, 1011, 1057, 1119, 1228
4. Timus: 1152, 1817
5. Codechef: Tools, PPXOR, Chefshop

(2-1) Week 10 (Geometry: Convex Hull)

Tutorials:
1. CP algorithms (Graham’s Scan): Convex Hull construction using Graham's Scan
2. Implementation: Convex Hull
3. Hackerrank: Programming Problems and Competitions
Problems:
1. ICPCLive: 3655 - Onion Layers, 4558 - Convex Hull of Lattice Points
2. SPOJ: BSHEEP, VMILI
3. LightOJ: 1203
4. UVA: 10065 - Useless Tile Packers, 681 - Convex Hull Finding
5. Codeforces: 166B
6. Other: Usaco 2014 January Contest, Gold - Cow Curling
 Level-2 Term-2
Tentative Class Schedule:
Week Topic
1 Probability, Expected value
2 Graph: Articulation point, Bridge
3 Graph: FLOW
4 Data Structure: RMQ, BST
5 Data Structure: Heap, SQRT Decomposition
6 Data Structure: HLD
Online Contest-1
7 DP optimization: Convex Hull Trick
8 DP optimization: Divide and conquer trick
9 Game Theory: Nim, Grundy
10 Geometry: Line Sweep
Online Contest-2

Guidelines:
● Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat…

Expectations:
● Total Number of problems solved: 300+
● CF rating:
-At the start: 1800+
-At the end: 2100+

Tips:
● Expected number of problems solved-1100 at least, and if you want WF, 2000
minimum. You must have solved around 350 Problems in LightOJ by now, and
more than 1000+ on Codeforces
● You must also start solving from CF frequently. Solve as much div2D and div2E as
possible-(minimum 300 in total, around 500 if you are serious). In team contests,
select 3-4 star contests in CF Gym.
 Tutorials & Problems List for Level-2 Term-2
(2-2) Week 1 (Probability, Expected value)
Tutorials:
1. প্রোবোমবমলটি: এক্সরপরেড ভযোলু
2. Mathematical Expectation
3. Sums and Expected Value — part 1 (Part - 1)
4. Sums and Expected Value — part 2
Problems:
1. UVa - 11762, 11427, 11348, 10777
2. LightOJ - Probability/Expected Value Category
3. Codeforces - Probability Tag

(2-2) Week 2 (Graph: Articulation point, Bridge)

Tutorials:
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ১৩: আটিশকুরলশন পরয়ন্ট এবিং মেি
2. Finding articulation points in a graph in O(N+M) - Competitive Programming
Algorithms
3. Finding bridges in a graph in O(N+M)
4. Articulation points and bridges (Tarjan's Algorithm)
Problems:
1. UVa - 315, 610, 796, 10199, 10765
2. Codeforces - 700C, 732F, 118E, 1000E
3. LightOJ - Articulation/Bridge Category

(2-2) Week 3 (Graph: FLOW)

Tutorials:
1. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি ১২ – যোমক্স ো প্ফ্লো (১)
2. গ্রোফ মথওমররি হোরিখম়ি-১২ – যোমক্স ো প্ফ্লো (২)
3. Maximum flow - Ford-Fulkerson and Edmonds-Karp
4. Maximum flow - Dinic's algorithm
5. Minimum-cost flow - Successive shortest path algorithm
6. Part 1: Key Concepts
Problems:
1. UVa - 11380, 10804, 11506, 10511, 1306, 259
 2. CF - 498C, 1288F, 237E, 863F, 316C1, 510E, 311E
3. LightOJ - Max flow-Min cut Category

(2-2) Week 4 (Data Structure: RMQ, BST)

Tutorials: (RMQ)
1. RMQ task (Range Minimum Query - the smallest element in an interval)
2. Sparse Table
3. Also see segment tree, lazy, BIT
Problems: (RMQ)
1. LightOJ – 1082, 1101, 1093, 1083, 1082, 1112, 1080, 1164, 1087, 1183, 1135
2. SPOJ - RMQSQ
3. Codechef - FRMQ

Tutorials: (BST)
1. Binary Search Tree(BST)
2. Binary Search Tree
3. Data Structure - Binary Search Tree
Problems: (BST)
1. Hackerrank: Binary Search Tree Problems
2. Misc

(2-2) Week 5 (Data Structure: SQRT Decomposition, Heap)

Tutorials: (SQRT Decomposition)
1. স্কয়োর-রুট মডকরিোমিশন
2. Square Root Decomposition | Tanvir's Blog
3. Learn Mo's Algorithm and Mo's algorithm on Tree (with practice problems)
4. SQRT decomposition
5. Everything on Mo's Algorithm
6. Mo's Algorithm on Trees [Tutorial]
7. Square Root Decomposition (Platinum)
Problems: (SQRT Decomposition)
1. Codeforces: 86D, 786C, 840D, 13E, 617E, 375D, 342E, 44C, 455D, 398D,
220B,446C, 487D, 506D, 348C, 444C.
2. LOJ: 1082, 1093,
3. Codechef: GERALD07, Sherlock and Inversions (IITI15),VLB,
 4. SPOJ: COT2, DQUERY, GIVEAWAY
5. Uva: 12003, 11990

Tutorials: (Heap)
1. Heaps/Priority Queues Tutorials & Notes | Data Structures
2. Heap Data Structure
3. Heap Data Structure
Problems: (Heap)
1. Codeforces: Problems list in a blog
2. Hackerrank: Heap/Priority Queue Problems

(2-2) Week 6 (Data Structure: HLD)

Tutorials:
1. Anudeep’s Blog (Must read): Heavy Light Decomposition (Note: This site may
show warning! Go to -> details -> proceed to this site)
2. Geeksforgeeks: Heavy Light Decomposition | Set 1 (Introduction)
3. E-maxx: Heavy-light decomposition
4. Curious to learn more?: (Have a look at this CF blog) Easiest HLD with subtree
queries
5. Also this: Hybrid Tutorial #-1: Heavy-Light Decomposition
Problems:
1. See the problems from this contest:
● Link: https://vjudge.net/contest/325844
● Pass: too_heavy
(2-2) Week 7 (DP optimization: Convex Hull Trick)
Tutorials:
1. Dynamic Programming Optimization - Convex Hull Trick (Must read)
2. Convex hull trick and Li Chao tree
3. Convex Hull Trick
4. [Tutorial] Convex Hull Trick — Geometry being useful
5. Episode 11 - Convex Hull Optimization
Problems:
1. See the problems from this contest:
● Link: https://vjudge.net/contest/391342 (See Problems: F - P)
● Pass: dp_optimize
 (2-2) Week 8 (DP optimization: Divide and conquer trick)
Tutorials:
1. What is divide and conquer optimization in dynamic programming? (Quora)
2. Divide and Conquer DP (CP algorithms)
3. Divide and Conquer Optimization (jeffreyxiao)
4. Divide and Conquer Optimization in Dynamic Programming (opengenus)
Problems:
1. See the problems from this contest:
● Link: https://vjudge.net/contest/391342 (See Problems: A - E)
● Pass: dp_optimize

(2-2) Week 9 (Game Theory: Nim, Grundy)

Tutorials:
1. Shafaeter Blog: প্গ মথওমর - ১
2. Nim Game Example:
● Nim Game Example
● Algorithm Games
3. Staircase Nim: Intro to Staircase Nim + Editorial for HackerRank "Move the
Coins"
4. Grundy:
● Sprague-Grundy theorem. Nim
● Grundy numbers for competitive programming
5. Graph: Games on arbitrary graphs
6. Others:
● https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Game_Theory/comb.pdf
● Tutorial for A Coin Game
● Combinatorial games
● Theory of Impartial Games
● Combinatorial Game Theory
Problems:
1. See the problems from the following contest:
● Link: https://vjudge.net/contest/321886
● Pass: lets_play_a_game

(2-2) Week 10 (Geometry: Line Sweep)

Tutorials:
 1. Line Sweep Algorithms
2. Line Sweep Technique Tutorials & Notes | Math
3. How to sweep like a Sir
4. Search for a pair of intersecting segments
5. Point location in O(log n)
Problems:
1. LightOJ: 1120
2. TopCoder: BoxUnion, CultureGrowth, PowerSupply, ConvexPolygons
3. UVa: 12657, 12647, 12310
4. Timus: 1848, 1469
5. A2OJ: Line Sweep Problems
6. Codechef: Line Sweep Tag
 Level-3 + Level-4
Guidelines:
● Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat…
● Learn on your own
● Take care of your juniors (Take classes, monitor their performance, motivate and
help them)

Tips:
● By now you must have learnt the basic and intermediate things of almost all
topics. Start specializing, discussing among teammates.
● Try to overcome your weak points and learn the things that you missed before.
Focus on more advanced topics.
● For example, you decide to be more specialized in DP. Learn complex DP
techniques like Knuth Optimization, etc.
● Or if you want to specialize in Math, learn FFT, NTT and more advanced number
theory topics.
● For data structure, splay tree, treap, HLD(solve QTREEs from SPOJ) etc.
● For graph, more esoteric problems.
I mean, by now you must have a good idea of what topics you want to do, and further
specialize on them. The above are the topics that must be learnt at least by one member
of the team, but there may be rarer topics as well.

Expectation: (For the rest of your Contest Career)

● Achieve top ranks in onsite contests
-Top in divisional
-Top-5 in national
● Assuming you have worked hard, you have become the best contestant CUET has
ever seen. Your name and fame spreads in BD competitive programming
landscape.
● Qualify for the World Finals 