CAMAGÜEY.- Like every year since 2010, the University of Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, developed the national finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, which counted with the participation of seven teams formed by students from this institution and two formed by students of the Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences Máximo Gómez Báez.

Finally, of the 164 selections that competed in the Cuban final, two teams of the university of Camagüey classify for the Caribbean tournament that will take place in The University of Oriente from November 6 to 10.

“In the contest, the teams of up to three students, had between four and five hours to face a set of problems of different subjects and complexities and to propose algorithms to solve the exercises, evaluated later by an automatic online judge”, explained José Miguel Fernández, professor of the Faculty of Informatics and Exact Sciences and dierctor of the ICPC contest in the UC.

“For classifying to the Caribbean phase, there are 28 seats at a national level, one of them is for the best business group and another for the most remarkable IPVCE, in the case of this last one, each contester is granted directly the career in Computer Engineering. Nevertheless, these two teams participate as guests since only the universitary selections attend the world tournament”, added the source.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest answers to a cycle of four levels of competition, the local, that was not celebrated in Cuba due to the affectations in transportation given the energetic situation; the national, regional and world, in which universities of all over the globe encourage team work through the analysis of problems and quick developement of softwares.

Translated by Elianna Díaz Mendieta