Think like a ‘C’ientist

5 Mar
2011

Posted by Shashwat Goel
The kids of this generation do think a lot – literally!!!

The recently concluded programming event of IIIT-D - Think like a ‘C’ientist, organized in collaboration with the ACM Student chapter is a testimony of the above fact.Held on the 3rd and 4th March. it witnessed some of the best brains of our college and battle it out for the top-spot in programming and analytical skills. It was open to all students and faculty members of the institute.

Language of programming  was kept solely as C to maintain uniformity and homogeneity amongst students across different batches. And since this ensured that all participants were equal in terms of knowledge pertaining to the computing language, thus cross batch teams were allowed.
The event took place over two days, in the following format :
1) Prelims : On 3rd March we had a prelims round (written) which comprised of questions testing the logical skills and analytical abilities.
In all 86 students participated putting in all their grin and teeth into the questions and lastly demanding ‘extra-time’.
2) The Finals : The top 10 teams from the prelims advanced to the finals held on the 4th of March.

For this round we gave the selected teams the freedom to choose the system of their choice (Lab   computer or Laptop), the resources they want (Internet, Books, etc.) and then solve the questions given to them.

After a gruesome 3 hours of the finals, which comprised of both coding and debugging aspects, we had the following people as winners :

  • 1st : Arjun Asthana and Ramjot Singh                             (BTech 2010 and Btech 2009)
  • 2nd: Anush Sankaran and Tejas Dhamecha                    (PhD)
  • 3rd : Robin Verma and Santosh Kumar                           (MTech 2010)
Congratulations to the the winners and all other participants for making the event a grand success.
We look forward to even greater participation and enthusiasm for future events.

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