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

2008 Results

The dust has cleared, and the rankings from the 2008 competition are as follows:

  1. Josh Wolfe: Josh Wolfe
  2. Zexernet: Randy Compton
  3. Team Polymorphic: Dan Fearing, Pierre Arakelian
  4. Le Vulu?: Alexis Christoforides
  5. Sudhi: Sudheendra Murthy
  6. Max Power: Colin Juillard, Farooq Khera, Edward Raleigh
  7. Barry and Tricia: Barry Lumpkin, Patricia Hurd
  8. The Pineapple Banana Smoothies: Le Xu, James Woodford, Jesus Yepez
  9. Kuru Kuru Pa!: Brian Partridge, Ben Gauronskas, Tobias Hartana
  10. Senior Discount: Shawn Nikkila, Amanda Zeigler

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.

2008 Problem Set

Information

Competition Date & Time: March 22, 2008, 9 AM - 1 PM
Pizza Party: 1pm, Award Ceremony: 1:30pm
Location: BYENG 214

Prizes: iPod, cash prizes, dinner with Google, software, and more!
Prizes for: top teams, best freshman, best sophomore, and best female!
Team sizes: 1 to 3 students (max of 1 grad student per team)
Languages: Java, C, C++, VB.Net, C#

Prizes

1st: An iPod nano for each team member, Microsoft software, $300 cash for the team to split, invited for dinner with Google employees
2nd: Google/Rainbow Studios Gear for each team member, Microsoft software, $150 cash for the team to split, invited for dinner with Google employees
3rd: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Keyboard, Microsoft software
4th: Microsoft WebCam
5th: Microsoft Optical Wireless Mouse
6th: Rainbow Studios Game
7th: Flight Simulation software
8th: Janiper Network bags
and more prizes... Top Freshman, Top Sophomore, Top Female...

Registration

Registration starts March 3rd to 20th, 2008.
Register at: Brickyard Artisan Court foyer, there will be a table set up with WCS students who can register you.
Also Register at: (between March 3rd to March 7th, and between March 17th and March 20th)

BYENG 520 on Mon/Wed from 3:10-4:30 pm
BYENG 518 on Mon/Wed from 11:00 to 12:00
BYENG 518 on Tue/Thu from 3:00 to 4:00

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:
Lockheed Martin
General Dynamics
Google
Microsoft
Rainbow Studios
GoDaddy.com
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