On October 10th, the 2015 ACM/ICPC Online Contest for the Central Region took place at DTU, with nineteen teams from universities participating, including the University of Danang, the Danang University of Technology, the Danang University of Education, Pham Van Dong University in Quang Ngai province and others. There were also one hundred and forty-nine visiting teams from other universities nationwide. With nine solutions for twelve problems in 1,060 minutes, the DTU team won second prize.
The DTU team receives second prize
The ACM/ICPC is held annually by the Vietnamese Informatics Association to identify and nurture IT talent in the Asian Regional and International ACM/ICPC. The online regional contest, for universities in the North, the Central and the South of Vietnam, were added to the competition this year to select the leading contestants for the national finals.
DTU students
In five hours, participating teams had to find solutions to twelve programming problems in English. Each incorrect solution was automatically penalized by twenty minutes. Nguyen Tran Viet Chuong, Le Quang Hiep and Le Ngoc An, of the DTU team, came up with nine correct solutions and finished second. The Danang Never Over team of Danang University came first with the same number of correct solutions as DTU but in less time. In the previous contest, DTU students found only three correct solutions and ranked 60th.
Nguyen Tran Viet Chuong said: “Before the contest, we took many trial tests online, both nationally and internationally. The ACM/ICPC competition allowed us to broaden our knowledge and put it into practice. It also helped us develop our creative thinking and programming skills, reading and analyzing materials in English and so on.”
The DTU team entered the National ACM/ICPC Finals on October 31st. DTU will be one of the nine contest hosts. The talented and ambitious DTU team is expected to be very successful.
(Media Center)