The First “Beauty of Programming” Challenge Organized by School of Software and School of Mobile Information Engineering Successfully Held

Source: School of Mobile Information Engineering

Written by: Student Work Office of School of Mobile Information Engineering

Translated by: Lin Wenmin

Recently, the First “Beauty of Programming” Challenge, organized by the School of Software and the School of Mobile Information Engineering, was successfully held on Zhuhai Campus. The competition was aimed to focus on learning, promote “dedication to teaching, students and learning”, and strengthen the students’ practical abilities.

Contestants in the competition were first-year students who were not recommended for admission into Informatics major at the School of Mobile Information Engineering and the School of Software, and had been among the top 50 in the online examination for Software Design, a course that they had taken in the first semester. The competition rules were made by Professor Guo Songshan from the School of Software, who is also an ACM-ICPC gold medal coach. It was designed to check on the contestants’ abilities to apply under pressure what they had learned to solve within a time limit as many design problems as possible. Tan Yingyao, Deputy Secretary of the School of Software, and SYSU Student Software Technology Development Center provided support for the competition throughout the whole process.

After 3-hour rivalry, He Lida and Zheng Peiyi from the School of Software, and Liao Kaixiang from the School of Mobile Information Engineering, won the first three places respectively.

The competition provided the students from the two schools with a platform for mutual communication and common progress. With the First “Beauty of Programming” Challenge successfully held, a new picture of IT competitions on Zhuhai campus was unrolled. The "Beauty of Programming” Challenge will be held annually at the School of Mobile Information Engineering and the School of Software in the future.