UVic Competitive Programming Club

About us

The UVic Competitive Programming Club is a group of students who enjoy solving programming problems. We compete annually in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), and meet weekly to practice and discuss algorithms.

If you would like to compete in programming contests or just want to improve your programming skills, join us! Anyone with basic programming ability is welcome.

Updating the resource archive

The homepage archive reads its featured resource metadata from _data/resources.yml. Existing Jekyll posts are also included automatically as session-note cards.

Add slides and a recording

Run the helper command from the repository root:

bin/add-resource \
  "Dijkstra's algorithm" \
  2026-10-06 \
  "Shortest paths and priority queues." \
  graphs,practice \
  /assets/resources/2026/dijkstra/slides.html \
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" \
  /dijkstra

Arguments are positional and appear in this order:

1. title — the meetup or session title.
2. date — use YYYY-MM-DD.
3. description — short text shown on the resource card.
4. tags — comma-separated tags, such as graphs,practice.
5. slides — local asset path or external URL.
6. video — YouTube or Vimeo recording URL.
7. post — optional URL for an existing session-note page.

Use - for an optional value. For example, this adds slides and a recording without a session-note page:

bin/add-resource "Dijkstra's algorithm" 2026-10-06 "Shortest paths." graphs,practice /assets/resources/2026/dijkstra/slides.html "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" -

Store HTML slides

Put HTML slides inside assets/resources/. Keeping each meetup in its own folder lets the HTML file reference local CSS, JavaScript, and images:

assets/resources/2026/dijkstra/
├── slides.html
├── styles.css
└── images/
    └── graph.png

Use the site-relative path in the command:

/assets/resources/2026/dijkstra/slides.html

Markdown slide sources work too. Pass the source path ending in .md, such as assets/resources/2026/dijkstra/slides.md; the helper checks that the file exists and stores the generated .html URL because Jekyll renders Markdown files as HTML pages. Make sure the filename matches exactly.

The command updates _data/resources.yml. After adding a resource, preview the site locally with:

bundle exec jekyll serve

Then open http://localhost:4000 and search for the new session in the resource archive.

Website theme

Based on Jekyll contrast theme