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Programming Team Coding Club GCT

The document proposes forming a programming team at GCT college to compete in the international ACM-ICPC programming competition. It discusses the importance of coding skills, describes what the ICPC is, provides examples of Indian colleges that participate, and outlines roles and responsibilities for students, faculty, and alumni to get a team started at GCT.

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Programming Team Coding Club GCT

The document proposes forming a programming team at GCT college to compete in the international ACM-ICPC programming competition. It discusses the importance of coding skills, describes what the ICPC is, provides examples of Indian colleges that participate, and outlines roles and responsibilities for students, faculty, and alumni to get a team started at GCT.

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Programming Team @ GCT - A Proposal

Dear friends,

My name is Rajkumar Madhuram (Raj), class of 1995 CSE. I am passionate about coding and
software development. Here are some of my thoughts on why we need a strong coding culture
at GCT and develop strong teams to compete in World level competitions.

Why are coding skills important?

● It can help you build great products as engineers and entrepreneurs.


● It will help you solve complex problems on a global scale.
● It can help you find interesting jobs.
● It will help you in your career.

Coding contests are all about problem-solving, creativity, and challenges. It is a great joy when
we see our GCTians doing well, winning hackathons and inter-collegiate contests within
Tamilnadu or India. But we cannot be contemptuous. We should strive to compete and win at
the ​international level​! I want to introduce to you the most prestigious competition, the
ACM-ICPC.

What is ICPC?

The ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery — International Collegiate Programming


Contest, Website: ​https://icpc.global/​) is a multi-tier, team-based, programming competition. It is
considered as the “Olympics of Programming Competitions”. It is quite simply, the oldest,
largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. [​Reference​]

Colleges can field multiple teams at the Regionals level. Usually, the top 2 teams from each
region make it to the World finals, held at a different university around the world each year.
Do Indian colleges participate in the ICPC?

Yes, They do!

All over the world, > 50,000 students from more than 3,000 universities compete. Several
hundred Indian colleges also participate at various levels.

If you look at last year’s World final results, ​https://icpc.global/worldfinals/results​, you can spot
several IITs in the list, with IIT Madras & Roorkee finishing 41st in the world, which is very
impressive.

Can we have a team for GCT?

Yes, absolutely! Here’s why I think we ​must​ have GCT team(s):


● It increases the exposure of challenging problems, and hence algorithms & techniques
to our students.
● It will provide a lot of problem solving and team work experience.
● It will increase the stature of our college when we do well.

Usually colleges form one or more teams. If many students are interested, they usually have a
try-out and pick the top performers and form teams. There must be a coach who should be a
faculty member.

How can we get started?

I believe that if students, faculty and alumni can work together, we can produce world class
teams year after year.
Group Responsibility Benefits

Students ● Have passion for problem ● Improve coding skills.


solving and coding. ● Learn teamwork.
● Work hard, practice a lot. ● Win accolades, jobs, seats for
higher education etc.

Faculty ● Assist with logistics. ● Enhance the college's image.


● Coaching ● Build up students

Alumni ● Provide mentoring ● Build up students


● Funding opportunities ● Recruitment opportunities

Next steps:

We have put together a simple form to invite students and alumni who are interested to register
with us. Please fill the form by clicking the link below to get started!

https://forms.gle/hATFLJFBSKjsE2BA6

About Me:

I love to code and build products. In fact, I built my first commercial software when I was doing
my first year at GCT when living in Vaigai Illam :)

I have participated in several coding contests, right from my high school, during my time at GCT,
when I did my Masters at UCF (University of Central Florida), Orlando, and throughout my
professional life. Our UCF team was placed 6th in the SouthEast US Regionals in the ACM
ICPC. I believe that programming contests definitely helped with my coding skills over the years.
Connect with me on LinkedIn / Facebook / Twitter - @rmadhuram

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