The quarter-finals of the world team championship in programming among institutions of higher learning in Belarus starts today, October 28, at BSU (Leningradskaya st., 16)
28 October 2022
52 teams from Belarus and Kaliningrad oblast of Russia will participate in the competition. Our country will be represented by 12 institutions of higher learning. These are Belarusian State University, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarusian State Techological University, Belarusian State University of Transport, Belarusian National Technical University, Brest State Technical University, Alexander Pushkin Brest State University, Vitebsk State University named after Peter Mironovich Masherov, Yanka Kupala Grodno State University named , Francysk Skoryna Gomel State University, Pavel Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel, Euphrosyne of Polotsk State University. Foreign contestants are representing Immanuil Kant Baltic Federal University.
Programmers will have to solve 11 algorythmic problems in 5 hours. Students will have to develop an algorythm, prove it is correct and optymal and write a program using one of the coding languagees. Then the results will be tested via special automated testing system. Any team with the highest number of correct algorythms done in the fastest time wins the quarterfinal. The event ends on 29 of october and semi-finalists who will compete in Saint-Petersbourg this year in december will be determined. The Finale of that competition is scheduled to be in november 2023 and the hosting side is yet to be announced soon.
Reference.
The World Student Programming Championship is the largest international competition for the youth elite of the world's programming. It has been held since 1977 by the international organization ACM in three stages: quarter-final, semi-final and final.
Belarusian teams began to participate since 1995. Throughout the history of its participation, BSU has won a gold medal (2004, Czhech Republic), a bronze medal (2008, Canada) and two silver ones (2012, Poland; 2013, Russia). Moreover BSU is a consistent participant of the final competitions and won a silver medal in Moscow in 2021. It should be noted that since 1998 BSU has been the holder of the certificate of the university-organizer of the Programming Championship among students. Such a high status was awarded to BSU for more than 20 years of organizing this large-scale event and the high results of the performance of BSU students.
Programmers will have to solve 11 algorythmic problems in 5 hours. Students will have to develop an algorythm, prove it is correct and optymal and write a program using one of the coding languagees. Then the results will be tested via special automated testing system. Any team with the highest number of correct algorythms done in the fastest time wins the quarterfinal. The event ends on 29 of october and semi-finalists who will compete in Saint-Petersbourg this year in december will be determined. The Finale of that competition is scheduled to be in november 2023 and the hosting side is yet to be announced soon.
Reference.
The World Student Programming Championship is the largest international competition for the youth elite of the world's programming. It has been held since 1977 by the international organization ACM in three stages: quarter-final, semi-final and final.
Belarusian teams began to participate since 1995. Throughout the history of its participation, BSU has won a gold medal (2004, Czhech Republic), a bronze medal (2008, Canada) and two silver ones (2012, Poland; 2013, Russia). Moreover BSU is a consistent participant of the final competitions and won a silver medal in Moscow in 2021. It should be noted that since 1998 BSU has been the holder of the certificate of the university-organizer of the Programming Championship among students. Such a high status was awarded to BSU for more than 20 years of organizing this large-scale event and the high results of the performance of BSU students.
