USACO Code (all written in Java)

• The code needs to have a comment on the above listing that includes your USACO ID (aerialc1), the language (JAVA), and the task that you were delegated to complete.

• Use BufferedReader, PrinterWriter, and StringTokenizer

• Make sure you use the correct and necessary imports!

• Below is a sample submission (make sure to remove all package statements before submission!):

  /* ID: aerialc1 LANG: JAVA TASK: template / import java.io.; import java.util.*;

  public class template { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new 􏰀FileReader("template.in")); // input file name goes above PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new 􏰀FileWriter("template.out"))); // Use StringTokenizer vs. readLine/split -- lots faster StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(r.readLine()); // Get line, break into tokens int n = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken()); r.close(); pw.close(); } }

Hopefully this above example is useful.

###Final Tips

• In general, it's an excellent idea to use pseudocode and flowcharts, combined with careful reading and attention to detail to solve problems.

• If you get discouraged because the problems are hard, read this excerpt from the official USACO Training Pages to boost your morale:

  • "Different people will take different spans of time to move through this material, especially the 100+ programming challenges. Some students already have years and years of experience, perhaps even at the international level. Others are just beginning to compete. Any rate much lower than one problem per two weeks is probably not high enough to achieve a rewarding training effect. It is anticipated some of the best students will average one problem or more per day for the first two sections (slower after that). To get the most out of this website, you should solve the problems in order, understand each paragraph of the instructional texts, and digest the analyses to see how they apply to solutions. Feel free to improve your solution after you read the analysis. Furthermore, feel free to send us new or better analyses if you have them."