The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the premiere global programming competition was recently conducted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
“Amrita is the largest site in the world for the Semi-finals of ACM-ICPC. We have been holding this event every year since 2005, which has been instrumental in increasing student participation in coding competitions”, said Anand Shenoi, Regional Contest Director, ACM ICPC, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
‘This is significant as a recent survey states that as many as 95% of Indian engineers are unable to do coding. The Regional Contest of ACM-ICPC at Amrita has earned the reputation for being a platform for budding programmers from India to exhibit their talent at the global stage’, said Shenoi.
According to a statement, ACM ICPC is considered the “Olympics of Programming Competitions” globally. It is the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest, with more than 2,700 universities participating from various countries where Students need to solve complex, real-world problems with a gruelling deadline.
More than 765 students from 253 colleges across India and Bangladesh have participated in the semi-finals of the global ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Engineering.
Students from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad emerged the winners. They, along with three other winning teams from Regional Contests of ACM-ICPC in other parts of India, will participate in the World Finals to be held in April 2018 at Peking University, China, a release said.