[romwell]

I have graduated before this course existed, but I did take the Data Structures and Algorithms with Skiena, and trained for the ICPC using his Programming Challenges book.

Skiena's books and instruction are a delight, and our team went on to ACM ICPC Finals in Sweden.

I can highly recommend the course and the book it is based on. Note that the links to online judges appear to be broken. Use [1] and [2] for your practice.

[1] https://icpcarchive.ecs.baylor.edu/

[2] https://uva.onlinejudge.org/

[amrx101]

How taxing was the training? Few guys I knew in school had no life other than code for ICPC on TopCoder.

[romwell]

Once a week-ish practice sessions. We were doing it for fun.