Contest Stages:
STAGE I: Teasers to participating colleges
Before the college level contest start you will need to participate in a teaser round contest running for one week.
The aim of this feature is to
Promote the programming contest
Familiarize you with how to use the online environment for the programming contest by practicing to solve problems
Enable the college faculty to filter 30 students from each participating college
STAGE I: Teasers to participating colleges
Before the college level contest start you will need to participate in a teaser round contest running for one week.
The aim of this feature is to
Promote the programming contest
Familiarize you with how to use the online environment for the programming contest by practicing to solve problems
Enable the college faculty to filter 30 students from each participating college
A custom web page will be created on the Campus Connect portal that will be accessible to you. You may choose your preferred slot for practice.
During the teaser round you may take up to 10 hours of programming practice, online. You will be required to randomly solve problems of simple, medium and complex types that carry different maximum marks. All solutions submitted will be evaluated and scored by special software.
You will be provided with programming examples and several useful learning resources for preparing for programming contest
You may choose to use any of the programming languages like Java, C, C++ and C#.
Based on your performance in the teaser round, you will be shortlisted for the college level contest.
STAGE 2: College Level Contest
- The faculty from your college will select 30 best performing students based on the students’ score in the teaser round. These students would be forming teams of 3 members each.
- Online contest platform will be used for conducting programming contest over the Internet.
- This round may take 1 to 4 days depending on number of participating colleges in State.
- The college level contest will be of 3 hours duration
- The contest will be conducted in the computer lab of the college with proctoring support by the non-computer science college faculty.
- You will be required to solve 3 problems within this time which of varying complexity.
- 2 best performing teams will be selected for participation in inter-college round by automated evaluation of submitted solutions.
- There will be manual validation of solutions in case of tie-scores.
STAGE 3: Inter-College programming contest
• The Inter-college round will be conducted for each logical region, consisting group of colleges. • Inter-College rounds, short listing criteria is,
o In a DC, if there is one zone, 6 best teams will be shortlisted from each zone.
o If there are 2 zones, 3 best teams will be shortlisted from each zone.
o If there are 3 zones, 2 best teams will be shortlisted from each zone.
o If there are 5 zones, 1 best team will be shortlisted from each zone.
• Here again teams would code solution to 3 of the 5 problems randomly presented by system in Java, C, C++ or C#. The test would be for duration of 3 hours and it would be proctored by respective college faculty.
STAGE 4: DC Level Programming Contest
- The DC level contest will be conducted at Infosys DC online computer labs using the same contest platform over Internet.
- Same contest rules apply. DC level contest will result in selection of winner and runner-up teams.
STAGE 5: National Level Programming Contest
- The National level contest will be conducted at Infosys DC online computer labs using the same contest platform over Internet.
- Same contest rules apply. National level contest will result in selection of winner and runner-up teams.
