April 2024
Who wouldn’t love to solve a puzzle and eat free pizza?
This year was the 36th annual Siena College High School Programming Contest. We had 4 teams representing our high school.
Contest was 3 hours and 7 challenges. Each team was free to write the code either in Python or Java. Only 2 teammates are allowed near computers to write and debug, while others have to stay in another room to solve and design the next challenge.
When one of our teammates got sick after school, we were left only with 3 people including me. So, we had only one of us to write code, while the other 2 worked on solving the challenge and designing the solution. We managed to complete 3 challenges successfully, and almost finished the fourth one. At the end of the night none of the teams even completed all 7 challenges so our result puts us in the top half of the contestants, which is good considering we competed with one less teammate.
Good news is the winning team was from my highschool. Go Nisky!!!
Want to know how challenging those puzzles were? See the image below:
Berk @Nisky 