Two teams from Beihang ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) training center won two gold medals in the 4th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) held in Jilin on September 22nd. One team is made up of Jiang Shenghu from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Wang Jiayi and Guo Ronghao, who are both from the School of Software. The other team is comprised with Zhou Huanyu, He Mingrui and Xiang Hongyi, and all three are from the School of Computer Science and Engineering.
227 teams from 140 well-known colleges and universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University and Fuzhou University participated in this regional contest which set 23 gold prizes, 46 silver prizes and 68 bronze prizes respectively.
The CCPC, sponsored by the Committee of China Collegiate Programming Contest, is an international annual event for university students around the world. It aims to stimulate students' interest in learning algorithms and programming, improve their abilities of algorithm design, logic reasoning, mathematical modeling, programming and English reading, motivate students to apply computer programming techniques to solve practical problems, and cultivate students’ awareness of innovation, team work and challenging spirit. The Contest plans to hold three sub-contests in Jilin, Qinhuangdao and Guilin respectively, and the annual finals in Shenzhen this year.
The Beihang ACM-ICPC training centre, headed by the Office of Academic Affairs and organized by the School of Software, brings together undergraduate students from various schools of the university for the pre-competition training. Every year, the Beihang intramural programming competition will be organized in December, and the Beihang tryouts will be held in May. Eventually, about 40 students, in group of three, will be selected for the centralized training during summer vacation. From September, the selected teams start to participate in the network trials and field trials of ACM-ICPC (Asian contest areas) and CCPC. The universities that qualify for the ACM-ICPC regional contests will take part in the global finals next April, and those going through the CCPC division contests will participate in the annual finals in November of that year.
Reported by Jiang Shenghu
Edited by Song Chao
Translated by Lyu Xingyun
