BattleCode - where tab meets spaces
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ACM held its first competitive coding competition BattleCode - where tab meets spaces for the academic year 2021-2022 on 4th September from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. The main objective of this competition was to help students get a feel of the competitive coding environment and sharpen their algorithm design, coding skills and logical thinking ability. The competition was open for all the branches and all engineering colleges, with an aim to acquaint more people with competitive coding problems and familiarize them with Hackerrank as a coding platform.
The competition started off sharp at 11:00 am where the participants had to log into Hackerrank and click the competition link provided to them. The participants were given 5 questions to solve in a duration of 90 mins. The problems were created having an equal mixture of easy and medium questions and one question of the difficulty level-hard. The participants were evaluated on the basis of their thinking skills, logical abilities, problem solving, evaluation of test cases and efforts to attempt the questions and not solely on the leader board of Hackerrank. Reviewing of the code and scoring was done personally by Mr.Grejo Joby (Chairperson-ACM) and Mr.Ruvin Rodrigues (Technical Head-ACM) to give all the participants a fair chance by expanding the judging criteria over a broader horizon rather than sticking to the predefined leader board.Â
At the end of the competition all the participants were provided with an e-certificate and the candidates shortlisted after the evaluation process would get a chance to be a part of ACM’s Technical Team.