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CQU Wins Gold Award in 42nd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

Recently, the Asia Regional Contest (Xi’an) of the 42nd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and organized by Northwestern Polytechnical University was brought to a successful close. The students of Chongqing University have won 1 gold award and 2 silver awards, a great honor for Chongqing  University.

A total of 356 teams from 188 colleges and universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University and Zhejiang University, have participated in the Asia Region Contest. The ACM Programming Club sent 4 groups to participate. After fierce competition of 5 hours, the persevering and unremitting team members were always concentrated. In particular, a team named “two hands off the keyboard” made up of Lin Chiyu, a student of 2015 from the School of Computer Science, Wang Chenchen, a student of 2014 from the School of Software Engineering, and Lin Yuanbin, a student of 2015 of the School of Software Engineering, fought to the last minute, and solved the puzzles and eventually won the gold award. In addition, two other student teams named respectively “spiraling up” and “train hard do not fail” won the silver award.

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) is the collegiate programming contest with the largest scale and highest level in the world, and is deemed as the “Olympics” in the computer circle, and a contest held to “cultivate the next-generation IT technical leaders”. The ACM Programming Club of Chongqing University serves as a platform and training base for students enthusiastic about programming and algorithm design to learn and communicate. All members are from different specialties of Chongqing University. On the afternoon of each Thursday and at the weekend, the members of the Club will gather in the classroom to carry out practical training of programming. The Club is open to all students interested in computer programming or eager to improve their programming ability.