Hack The Hack Coding Contest
The online coding contest Hack The Hack was an initiative taken by VNR IEEE CS SB on March 30, 2020 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. as a part of series of events conducted by the VNR IEEE Student Branch. The contest was a huge success with unmatched support from the CS Chapter Advisor - Dr. G. Ramesh Chandra, Student Branch Counsellor - Dr. Y. Padma Sai and undoubtedly, all the volunteers who joined hands altruistically to make this happen.
The registration for the contest started on March 25, 2020 and was completely free of cost. As the contest was scheduled to be held on March 30, the registrations ended on March 29 at 5 p.m. Hack The Hack got a tremendous response with more than 400 students registering from 40 different colleges, coming from diverse streams and year of study.
The contest was conducted on HackerEarth platform for the duration of one-half hour with 3 questions of moderate difficulty and 1 easy question. Each question carried a maximum of 100 marks and the winning criteria included meeting the time complexity and passing maximum number of test cases for a given problem statement. Plagiarism check was also done once during the contest and after the contest to ensure a fair gameplay.
Once the contest was over, the winners were declared on the Instagram page of VNR IEEE SB along with the solutions on April 1, 2020 at 1 p.m.
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Registration
- Date: 30 Mar 2020
- Time: 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM
- All times are (GMT+05:30) Asia/Calcutta
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- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- India
Agenda
The agenda of the contest started was to aim at bringing the young minds and their talents to light without any inhibition.
The feedback of the contest was exhilarating as the participants eagerly await the next contest of similar fashion. It boosted the confidence of many individuals and proved to be a practice to those attending the interviews in the coming months. VNR IEEE SB has taken a pledge to conduct more such events and has committed to stay active in many years to come.
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