California State University, Sacramento’s
PC2 Version 9
Contestant’s Guide
This guide is intended to familiarize you with the process of submitting programs to Contest Judges using the PC2 (“P-C-Squared”) Programming Contest Control system. Starting PC2 will bring up the PC2 login screen, shown below:
To login to PC2, click once on the Name box on the login screen, enter your assigned team ID, press the TAB key or click on the Password box, then enter your assigned password. Your team ID will be of the form teamxx, where xx is your assigned team number (for example, “team3” or “team12”). After entering your team name and password, click on the Login button.
PC2 Contestant’s Guide 1 http://www.ecs.csus.edu/pc2
Submitting a Program to the Judges Once the system accepts your login, you will be at the PC2 Main Menu screen, shown below. Note that the team ID and the team’s site location are displayed in the title bar, and the amount of time remaining in the contest is displayed below the title bar.
Clicking on the SUBMIT RUN tab near the top of the screen displays the run submission screen, which is shown above. Clicking in the Problem box will display a drop-down list of the contest problems; choose the problem for which you wish to submit a program (called a “run”) to the Judges (in the example, a problem named “Hello” has been chosen). Clicking in the Language box will display a list of the programming languages allowed in the contest; choose the language used by the program that you wish to submit to the Judges (in the example, “Java” has been chosen). To submit a program to the Judges, you must specify the name of the file containing your main program. Click on the Select button to invoke a “File Dialog” which lets you locate and select your main file. The dialog lets you automatically navigate to the correct path and file location (in the example, the main program file “C:\work\Hello.java” has been