From June 5th to 6th, the 2021 National Invitational Competition of International Collegiate Programming Contest was held at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. One team from NENU took part in the contest. After 5 hours of fierce competition, the team led by Associate Professor Zhou Zhiguo from the School of Information Science and Technology of NENU (members are 2018 undergraduates Tong Haolong, Xu Wenhao and 2019 undergraduates Li Jiaqi) won the gold award. A total of 287 teams from 121 universities across the country participated in the contest.
International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a global programming competition for college students, initiated by the Association for Computing Machinery in 1970. Each participating team consists of three members, representing their university, committed to using computers to solve real-world problems, and cultivating college students’ ability to cooperate, create, innovate, and bear challenges, and with a long history, it is the most influential and large-scale computer contest.
Over the past 40 years, ICPC has grown into a challenging education project as it has transformed the traditional teaching model. It has demonstrated outstanding students’ solid foundation in the field of basic mathematics, computing theory, programming practice, and interdiscipline, and has expanded students’ international horizons. It has been praised as “Olympics” in the field of computing and “a contest to train the next generation of information technology leaders”.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)
