Description

This eight-class course is designed to teach students concepts that appear frequently in the USACO Silver division and in other major programming competitions. Classes will consist of a lecture and a problem-solving session, and homework will be assigned weekly. The difficulty of these concepts ranges from USACO Bronze to USACO Gold.

Syllabus

1. Prefix Sums and Difference Arrays
2. Searching and Sorting
3. 2 pointers and Bitwise operators
4. Sets, Maps, Queues, Stacks
5. DFS
6. BFS, floodfill
7. Ad Hoc
8. Cumulative Review and Practice