School Kids Rule at Coding Contest

The results from the Advent Programming Contest 2016 made it clear: The next generation of hackers will be awesome!

The front positions are dominated by students from school, who showed great problem-solving skills and also a lot of dedication to apply these skills! Running up are excellent coders from the "other" category, thus (often professional) coders who are not studying in a school or university.

The final ranking is as follows:

Rank	Name	Category	Solved Problems
1	Marc Goritschnig	school	24
2	ChristianGubesch	school	24
3	DanielSemmelrock	school	24
4	Simon	school	24
5	jareds	other	22
6	ck127720	other	22
7	Dieser1Boi	other	21
8	gutblender	other	20
9	nightelf	other	19
10	MichaelGubesch	other	19
11	maahgeh	other	18
12	Matzoer	other	17
13	AugustHoerandl	school	16
14	JoelHolzbauer	school	16
15	Kozeschnik Oskar	school	16

In overall, we had 175 participants from schools, 105 university students, and 115 in the "other" category.
The awarding ceremony will take place at the beginnig of the new semester as part of the semester opening game night of the IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt. See you there

Advent Programming Contest 2014 Awarding

At the awarding ceremony

In December 2014, the Advent Programming Contest (APC) was held for the third time. The joint event between the Faculty of Technical Sciences and the IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt enjoys increasing popularity every year. This time there were 345 enthusiastic participants who accepted the challenge and tryed to solve a daily programming task from December 1st to December 24th. I hope everybody who participated enjoyed the problems, even though nobody was able to solve all the tasks. While every problem was solved at least once, the maximum number of solved tasks by any participant was 23 out of 24 – given the hardness of several of the problems this is an excellent result.
The winners of the three categories of "student", "university staff" and "other" were announced at a formal ceremony organized by the IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt. The best student adventcoder was Philip Gasteiger, student of computer science at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
The best pupil adventcoder, Simon Dörrer, came from HTL Mössingerstraße Klagenfurt. Ben Wright, a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee, Martin, now working as a software engineer won the third category “other” and attended the ceremony via webcast.