2nd Edition of Hackathon Coding contest

The Information and Computer Science (ICS) Department, the TechBench Club, as well as the CyberSecurity Research Group (CSRG) are orgnizing the 2nd Edition of the Hackathon coding contest.

Hackathon is a programming/coding contest where paraticipants have to solve a set of short challenging coding problems in Java or in C programming languages. The faster you solve them, the higher you will be ranked. The competition starts by easy/moderate problems and goes on until advanced problems at the end. The scores will be diplayed live during the event as participants solve the problems.

Hackathon 1.0 took place in November 2015 with more than 100 participants (photo attached).

Who can participate? Everybody

- Undegraduate students

- Graduate students

- Staff, Faculty, etc.

What to bring?

A laptop with access to KFUPM wireless network (with enough power for 2 hours)

Registration:

www.techbench.org/hackathon

Date: Wednesday March 2nd, 2016

Time: 6-8pm

Location: Building 10 Auditorium

Prizes:

1- 2000 SAR

2- 1000 SAR

3- 500 SAR

Special prize for ICS102 students: 500 SAR

Thank you

ICS Department

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