In aims of providing a platform for the Computer Engineering department students to improve and demonstrate their problem solving and programming skills, the department hosted the 1st “Blind Coding Challenge” coding competition annually among its undergraduate students on Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 in Programming Lab #241 with the participation of 24 students.
The Blind Coding Challenge is an individual and fun challenge which is targeting the students from Computer Engineering and IT department of all grades.
This competition not only aims to improve and enhance the students’ programming knowledge but also improve their speed, accuracy and efficiency in solving these challenging programming statements.
Participants were given four programming problems of varied difficulties to solve without a compiler and within a limited time frame of 2 hours and 30 minutes for each problem. These programming problems were solved by using either (Java or C++) programming languages. Careful analysis and application of algorithms taught in undergraduate studies were an aid for the students in solving these problems.
Winners were decided upon certain judging criteria and an awarding ceremony was held on May, 21st where the participants received gift packs and certificates and the top 3 ranked students were announced and received their awards.
Winners for the 1st edition of Blind Coding Challenge are as follows:
1st Place: Islam Abdulaziz, 3rd Grade, IT Department
2nd Place: Firdaus Azad, 1st Grade, Computer Engineering Department
3rd Place: Hasna’ Alaa, 2nd Grade, Computer Engineering Department
The department of Computer Engineering congratulates all the winners and participants alike for their participation and for making the event a great success and looks forward to expanding the competition reach among the nationally located universities of Kurdistan as a branded Tishk International University based Competition for the editions to come.
