MMU Programming Competition
This past weekend I participated in the MMU Programming Competition. Sadly I didn’t win, but the other Monash team got third place. Monash send Jason Khong, Andika, and Endra Irawan Thio, and myself. I was paired up with Jason.
A team consisted of two members, and the competition consisted of two rounds. All universities, with the exception of MMU, could send only 2 teams. MMU had the priviledge to send as many as they want, which I would say is a bit unfair. You are limited to only use C/C++ and the DevC++ IDE. I find it a very crappy IDE. I bet I could have saved so much time using VIM.
I saw a lot of familiar face in the competition, some from the eGenting competition, and some friends of mine.
We went to Melaka on Friday evening, and spent the night at Kings Hotel. During the night we went out to the city to eat, and walked along Jonkers Street.
The first round eliminated the number of teams down to ten, and consisted of six questions to be answered in two hours. Simple logic problems. Insertion sort, a variation of the Tower of Hanoi, and creating a timer, etc.
Both Monash teams got into the 2nd round. Izhar (KageSenshi) also made it to the second round.
The second round consisted of two questions and was two hours long. The first problem was very simple, roll a pair of dice, and find out how many times it comes up to a certain number, and display in table format the expected and actual result. Didn’t take much time. The second problem was to write an algorithm to match a text to a key. Our algorithm wasn’t that difficult, and when we coded it out, it looked good. But we experienced problems due to our unfamiliarity with C, and me having done it a year ago.
Luckily one of the Monash teams made it into third place.
The Monash Team came in Uniform.
Now if only I could have done it in Ruby, I bet I could have won.
Looking forward to more competitions in the future. Know of any?
