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Announcing UNITEN MULTIPROG Competition 2010

Two years ago I participated in a programming competition in University Tenaga Nasional called UNITEN MULTIPROG 2007. MULTIPROG is short for multimedia and programming, as it was a competition for multimedia and programming students.

Recently I received an email from a UNITEN professor asking me if I could spread the news about their upcoming competition, the UNITEN MultipProg '10 Competition to be held on Saturday 6th February 2010:

MultiProg ‘10 which is organized by College of IT, Universiti Tenaga Nasional is a Multimedia & Programming Competition. This event is open to all Institution of Higher Learning (IHL) and schools in Malaysia. The objectives of the competition are:

• To serve as a national platform for undergraduates and secondary school students to demonstrate and observe the creativity and innovativeness in multimedia techniques and programming skills.
• To encourage creative thinking, foster spirit of teamwork and generate inspired graduates.

This competition is divided into 3 categories :

• Programming Category (Open to all IHL undergraduate students)
• Montage Design Category (Open to all IHL undergraduate students)
• Poster Design Category (Form 4 & Form 5 students)

Prizes

Prizes for each of the categories:

UNITEN MULTIPROG Competition 2007

After thee MMU Programming Competition, I felt a bit down trodden as I couldn't leave a mark in it. Not soon after the competition, I was informed of the Uniten MULTIPROG Competition 2007. By the way, MULTIPROG stand for Multimedia and Programming. The competition has two components, both a multimedia and a programming element which you can take part in. Naturally I decided for the programming one.

The competition allowed 2 teams, made of 2 people each, from a University. My partner once again for this round was Jason Khong, and the other team was the same previous team.

This was also my first time to Uniten, and I was surprised that they actually have a hotel inside the campus.

We were restricted to using C, and Microsoft Visual C++ to code. Both of which I am not so familiar with, especially the latter.

There were two sets of questions, each taking a duration of 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete. The first set consisted of 10 questions each weighing the same, and the second set of 3 weighing differently. Your team was scored on how many, and how well you answered the questions.

I got a reputable 3rd place in the competition, which I don't think is so bad as I'm not familiar with the tools.

The prizes:

• 1000 MYR
• 2 days 1 night stay at Langkawi

Once again, I'm quite ashamed that I couldn't get first, though I'm satisfied with at least getting something.

This puts Monash University has been in the top 3 in past 4 local programming competitions. Claiming 1st twice, and 3rd twice.

Have to bring that record up!