University ICT students will be challenged once again to show their skills in this year's edition of the Castille Resources & ICTSA Programming Competition that will be held later on this month.
The event is being organised by the ICT Students' Association at the University of Malta. The idea was first launched in 2005 by Gordon Pace, lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of ICT at university.
This year's edition is being sponsored by Castille Resources Ltd and supported by Ixaris and the Computer Society of Malta. Castille Resources is a leading ICT recruitment specialist in Malta and is lending its support to nurture the local pool of software programming developers.
This year there are two separate competitions, one for student teams and the other for industry teams.
Student teams will consist only of students studying at any educational institution, while industry teams can be composed of programmers from a single company.
Teams will have only 48 hours to submit their code in reply to the exercise put forward by the organisers on February 26 at 8 p.m. The deadline for submissions is February 28 at 8 p.m.
Participants can register until February 25 at 12 p.m.
Since the competition is intended primarily to challenge university students, the organisers chose February to hold the event as students would have finished their exams earlier in the month and the first assignments of the second semester would not have cropped up yet.
Clear criteria upon which the entries will be judged will also be published on the competition's website at the time of commencement of the competition. Criteria will have no subjective element, and will simply be based on the quantifiable performance (such as quality of results, speed of calculation of results) of the programme.
A first prize of €250 and a second prize of €150 will be awarded to the best two submissions in the student teams category as judged according to the published criteria.
The winning entry among the industry teams will be awarded an appropriately inscribed trophy.
For more details on the Castille Resources & ICTSA Programming Competition one may send an e-mail to info@ictsamalta.org or visit www.cs.um.edu.mt/gordon.pace/Workshops/ICTSAPC2010/.