We spent a few days (and nights) evaluating your solutions. We were very pleasantly surprised by overall quality of your solutions which was better than in previous years.
Now some comments to solutions. This comments may guide you where you lost some points and also may be useful for everybody who wants take part in the future ICP'2000.
The two most important things of every solution we take in account is how much it conforms to requests of task and how user-friendly application is. We also evaluate efficiency of your algorithms and data structures together with documentation.
Documentation was the worst part of most solutions. What we mean by documentation? If you want to get full rate from documentation your programm should be clearly structured, controll block should be indented, identifiers should have descriptive names and non-trivial core operations should be commented. Part of a documentation is also description of used algorithms and data structures. Very important is also users' guide to your software.
You should name identifiers and write comments in English as it is official competition language. Some solutions had comments written in Cyrillic, which on our systems looks like a nasty garbage.
Some programms get a low rate because they used nonstandard components, which we did not obtain from you together with solution. If you using nonstandard components in your application (for example some third party OCX control), you shoud accompany your programm with instalation utility which will properly install required components to the system. Also make sure that you do not break any licence by using and distributing such component.
That's all folks. We hope that this short article can help you improve your solutions at finals or in the next-year's competition.
Jirka Kosek
member of jury