There are 16 types of programming contest problems (according to USACO)
- Dynamic Programming
- Greedy
- Complete Search
- Flood Fill
- Shortest Path
- Recursive Search Techniques
- Minimum Spanning Tree
- Knapsack
- Computational Geometry
- Network Flow
- Eulerian Path
- Two-Dimensional Convex Hull
- BigNums
- Heuristic Search
- Approximate Search
- Ad Hoc Problems