The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Our freshly joined intern Dipu Prasad participated in ICPC Amritapuri regional contest on 28th Jan 2024.

Here’s an account of the event, straight from Dipu, “It was a great experience and the best ever week of my life I have spent in Amritapuri Campus as I was always surrounded with like minded people and got some advice from other participants to improve my problem solving skills. During the contest, we realised how different it was to participate in the offline contest from online contest as every team got one computer. So, to decide whose approach is right was confusing and a new experience. We even argued among ourselves for a question when all of us had different approaches.

Now about the result. We were expecting to get into at least top 50 but we got 197 rank. We were little sad with the result but also we were happy with the efforts we did to reach there and the efforts we made to solve the questions and got this unforgettable experience. Going to  ICPC regional was dream for each one of us before even entering the college and we got there in our fourth year which is best  achievement till now and every moment from registering for the contest to participating there was surreal.”

Dipu, your experience is certainly inspirational! I’m sure you will have a lot of Wisdmers asking you about this. And yes, here are some pics from the event and of some sightseeing!