Welcome to P.24

P.24 is a programming competition being held at the University of Southern California during E-Week, from 12:00 PM (noon) on February 18th to 12:00 PM (noon) February 19th (Presidents’ Day, University Holiday). Unlike a traditional programming competition, the goal of P.24 is to create a complete application. Participants will be given 24 hours to complete their applications, at which time winners will be selected by a panel of judges. And of course, there will be both punch and pie.

P.24 is a project of USC Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the computer science honor society at USC.

Download our countdown widget for Mac OS X (requires 10.4.3 or above):
P24 Countdown Widget (OS X) [DMG]

• Thank you to everyone who registered. The contest begins at 12 Noon on Sunday, February 18, 2007.
• Remote Team Sign-In is now open.
• The Theme is now available to view for remote teams.
• Announcement Posted: P.24 Now Underway!
• Announcement Posted: First Milestone Complete
• Announcement Posted: Photos, Contests, & Coffee
• Announcement Posted: Dinner Is Served
• We now have a IRC channel setup. Come join your fellow participants at irc.slashnet.org #p24 if you have an IRC client installed, or use or IRC Web Client.
• Announcement Posted: Halfway Done!
• Announcement Posted: Good Morning
• Announcement Posted: Code Submission Guidelines & Presentation
• Announcement Posted: 30 Minutes Remain!
• Announcement Posted: The Winners!

The pages below contain basic information regarding P.24. Keep in mind that this information is still tentative and subject to change without notice.

• About P.24 - More information about P.24, including schedules.
• Contest Rules - Operating parameters for the competition.
• P.24 Schedule & Agenda - Listing of events and deadline for the competition.
• Teams - Complete team list, including links to team pages.
• Remote Team Sign-In - Sign in for teams working remotely (must have prior permission).
• Public Announcements Archive - List of email updates sent out to contest participants.
• Submission Instructions - How to submit your code.
• IRC Web Client - Java interface to our chat room. Feel free to drop by! (irc.slashnet.org #p24)
• Photos - Photos from the contest.
• Judges - The people who have generously volunteered their time to review contestant’s finished work.
• Sponsors - The people who have made P.24 possible.
• Contact Information - Where to turn for more help.

If you are new to this site, you may want to visit the pages below to find your way around. Since this is a wiki, every page on this site may be modified by clicking edit draft at the bottom of each page. However, please make sure that all edits are constructive and useful. If you wish to experiment, you may do so over in the PlayGround.

• Create Wiki Account - Register your name with the wiki to identify yourself while editing pages.
  • Note: This is seperate from contest registration.
• Formatting Syntax - How to format text on this wiki.
• Style Guide - How to write good wiki pages.
• InterWiki - Creating links to popular sites, such as Wikipedia and Google.
• Images - How to upload images onto this server.
• DokuWiki Manual - More information on working with DokuWiki.

Many thanks to our Sponsors, Microsoft, Amazon AWS, and Symantec for helping to make P.24 possible.

• University of Southern California
• USC Upsilon Pi Epsilon