On Oct.14th, the 37th ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery- International Collegiate Programming Contest) Asia Regional Contest (Changchun Site) was completed in Northeast Normal University. USTC_Marine, which was composed by three undergraduate students CHEN Jiyu (Grade-2011, School of Computer Science and Technology), CAO Boxiao (Grade-2009, School of Physics), and ZHANG Ruoyu (Grade-2011, School of Physics), won the gold medal; the other three Grade-2011 undergraduate students from School of Computer Science and Technology MAO Yuting, WANG Huazheng, WANG Yuehui also got a bronze medal in their debut contest.
There were altogether 180 contestant teams from more than hundreds of universities in China participating in this contest hosted by Northeast Normal University. The rest of Asia Regional Contests would be continued in Tianjin, Jinhua, Hangzhou, Chengdu, etc.
ACM-ICPC is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world, and it aims at testing collegiate innovative ability, teamwork spirit, programming ability, analysis and problem solving ability under high pressure. ACM-ICPC was launched from 1970, and in the past 40 years, it has developed into the most influential collegiate programming contest in the world.
The ICPC is a competition among teams from contestant universities, and each team is composed of three students. During the contest, each team is required to use one of the programming languages: C, C++, or Java to solve 7 to 10 programming problems within 5 hours on one computer. Programs are then run on test data, which gives out the judgment as AC/WA/TLE/MLE/RE/PE and notifies the team immediately. The organizer will raise a balloon coloring the corresponding problem after the team correctly solves it. The winner is the team which correctly solves most problems in the least time. USTC has always been an active contestant and host party in ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest over the last decade. In the past Asia Regional Contests, USTC got outstanding achievements and also reached the World Finals.
In the recent years, in the practice of Elite Class and implementation of Everest Plan (a plan for the cultivation of top students in basic disciplines) issued by the Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology has combined the discipline features and student cultivation requirement, regularly reinforcing empirical teaching construction. Under school’s systematic programming training involving in curricular teaching and extracurricular practice, students of SCST gain obvious enhancement in their programming ability and further strengthened their innovation capacity.
