PC2 User's Wiki

Welcome to the main page for the PC2 User's Wiki! This section of the PC2 Wiki is dedicated to providing assistance for people interested in using the PC² system. This includes Contest Administrators who are setting up a programming contest; teams competing in a contest being run using PC², and others (such as Judges and Spectators) participating in a contest running under PC².

The PC2 User's Wiki contains a variety of pages, including:

• Web Access, which contains information on how to set up PC² so that teams can access it via a browser.
• Contest Clock, a description of how PC² allows the Contest Administrator to manage contest time.
• Validators, an explanation of what a validator in a programming contest is and how they are used.
• Input Validators, which describes what "Input Format Validators" are and how they are useful.
• Output Validators, which describes what "Output Validators" are, when they are required, and how they are useful.
• PC2v9 API, which describes the Application Programming Interface through which users can write code to access a running PC2 Server.
• Sample Contests, which describes a set of "built-in" contest configurations and how to load them into the system.
• Multi-site Support, which gives information related to running a multi-site contest using PC2v9.
• PC2 Recent Releases, a record of recent released versions of PC2v9.
• PC2 Release History, a history of PC² going all the way back to Version 1.0 (1988).