20th Annual Eugene Luks Programming Contest Yields Impressive Turnout and Spirited Competition
The 20th Annual Eugene Luks Programming Contest took place this year on Saturday, April 30 in Deschutes 100. The CIS Department holds this contest every year as an opportunity for current undergraduate and graduate students to have fun while challenging their programming skills.
During the three hour contest, student teams competed against each other with the goal of programming correct solutions to as many of the six problems as possible. Programming was done in Java and C++.
The turnout almost doubled that of the previous few years with 47 undergraduate students on 17 teams and 4 grad students on 2 teams.
Contest Winners
- Undergraduate Division
First place team vacca (Rui Tu and Yueqi Zhu) solved 3 of the 6 problems. Second place team baka (Jacob Bieker, Matthew Jagileski, and Theodore LaGrow) solved 3 problems, but took a bit longer. Notably, team baka was the only team to solve one of Professor Luks' problems in the past few years.
- Graduate Division
The winners of the grad division, team mucca (Raleigh Foster and Zach Schmidt), solved two problems.
Professor Wilson would like to thank the following people for helping organize the event this year:
Undergraduate Coordinator Adriane Bolliger for registration organization, Professor Emeritus Eugene Luks and Jim Allen for submitting problems, systems administrators Paul Bloch and Lauradel Collins for systems support and contest judging, and Professor Michal Young for faculty supervision.