The ASU annual programming competition is brought to you by Women in Computer Science (WCS) and serves as a fun opportunity to prove your mettle against fellow ASU students.

ASU 2007 programming competition is co-organized by WCS and IEEE CS@asu

2007 Results

The dust has cleared, and the rankings from the 2007 competition are as follows:

  1. Just Nathan: Nathan Winchester
  2. Trebor Esoj: Robert Srinivasiah, Jose Acero
  3. Team Polymorphic: Dan Fearing, Pierre Arakelian
  4. Offworld Activation: Jared Simpson
  5. Lexas: Alexis Christoforides
  6. Max Power: Colin Juillard, Farooq Khera, Edward Raleigh
  7. BackstageControl: Barry Lumpkin, Patricia Hurd
  8. Web 4.0b: Shawn Nikkila, Luis Tari, Amanda Zeigler
  9. Senate Software: Nitesh Mehta, Temitope Akinwande, Daniel Merrill
  10. I AM PAYAM: Payam Refaeilzadeh

A more detailed list of rankings including the scores of each team can be viewed here.
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all participants for giving it their best. We look forward to seeing you at next year's competition.

2007 Problem Set
2007 Test Cases

Information

Competition Date & Time: March 24, 2007, 9 AM - 1 PM
Pizza Party: 1pm, Award Ceremony: 1:30pm
Location: BYENG 214

Prizes: iPod nano, cash prizes, dinner with Google, software, and more!
Prizes for: top teams, best freshman, best sophomore, and best female!
Raffle: an iPod nano will be raffled off among the participants!
Team sizes: 1 to 3 students (max of 1 grad student per team)
Languages: Java, C, C++, VC .Net, C#

Prizes

1st: An iPod nano 4GB for each team member, $300 cash for the team to split, invited for dinner with Google employees
2nd: Google Gear for each team member, $150 cash for the team to split, invited for dinner with Google employees
3rd: Rainbow Studio Gear for each team member,invited for dinner with Google employees
4th: Microsoft optical mouse for each team member,invited for dinner with Google employees
5th: Rainbow Studios games
6th: Google exercise balls
7th: Wiley books
8th: Raytheon USB drive/mouse

Top Freshman: GoDaddy.com gift certificates, gift items, invited for dinner with Google employees
Top Sophomore: GoDaddy.com gift certificates, gift items, invited for dinner with Google employees
Top Female: GoDaddy.com gift certificates, gift items, invited for dinner with Google employees
Raffle for participants: iPod nano, Raytheon items

Registration

Registration starts March 1 to 22, 2007.
Register at: Brickyard Artisan Court foyer, there will be a table set up with WCS students who can register you
Also Register at:

BYENG 416 on Mon/Wed 2pm-4pm, Tue/Thu 2pm-3pm, or
BYENG 520 on Mon/Tues/Wed from 3:15-4:15 pm, or
BYENG 411-AB on Mon/Wed 11am-12:30pm, or
BYENG 498-AB on Thursday 1:00-2:00pm and Friday 12:30-2:00pm.

Fee: $15 per a team

Team size: Teams may include 1 to 3 ASU students, but no more than one graduate student per team.

You will receive a receipt when you register -- do not lose your receipt! You will need to bring it with your student IDs on the day of the competition.

The first 40 people to register will receive goody bags and T-shirts.
Every participant is invited to have fun at the Pizza Party.

Everyone is welcomed to submit copies of their resumes which will be given to sponsors that request student resumes.

FORMS:
Registration Form
Information Packet

Pictures

Photos from the competition:


Sponsors

Observe world-shaking charity! Champions of just causes around the world, these savvy philanthropists have lent their shining monetary bulk to the ASU programming competition:
General Dynamics
Honeywell
Google
Microsoft
IBM
Rainbow Studios
GoDaddy.com
Raytheon
Thomson Course Technology
Wiley
Addison-Wesley
WCS alumni

History

The history of the competition is something many have heard in hushed tone about the flickering light of a failing CRT, but here you may peruse genuine documents on the storied event's past:

Site last updated March 31, 2009