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Report by Stephen Thorpe
Friday 15 April saw 63 students descend upon computer labs at both the City Campus and the South Campus for the inaugural AUT Programming Contest (AUT PC).
The was event led by Phil Robbins with colleagues Jacqui Whalley, Stephen Thorpe, Steffan Hooper, Harley Ogier and Shaun Wason.
AUT PC saw students spend the evening tackling seven programming challenges in ascending order of difficulty. The contest pits teams of three, including problem solvers, software developers and software engineers, against one another in a four-hour battle. The goal is to solve and code as many of the algorithmic and logic challenges as possible in any of the five programming languages.
Teammates collaborate on tasks to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds, and write the code to solve each problem. Problems ranged in difficulty from requiring simple programming knowledge, to needing advanced problem solving skills and having the ability to write advanced algorithms.
Congratulations go to the winners: Jony Hill, Scott Mackenzie and Shannon Ness; in second place: Sunil Kumar Reddy Buddala, Bulgan Tsogoo and Nidhi Gowdra; Top Second Year Team: Bailee Devey, Tao and Li, Xianhao Liu; and Top FirstYear Team: Brian Kong and Jason Zhu.
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