URJC students do a great job in the Ada Byron competitive programming contest

The 'Victorious Secret' team, made up of 3rd and 4th grade students from different degrees of the ETSII (Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering) has achieved second place in the general classification as well as second place in its category. 2nd year students have also won second place in their category.

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

Over the past weekend, a total of 41 teams from various universities (UCM, UPM, UAH, UAM, Uva and URJC) have participated in the Ada Byron competitive programming contest. The Rey Juan Carlos University has participated with four teams in different categories ('second year' and 'third year or higher', in the 'first year' category there has been no participation of the URJC).

The 'Victorious Secret' team, made up of Raúl Martín Santamaría, Jakub Jan Luczyn and Daniel Ávila Fernández, 3rd and 4th graders, have achieved second place in the general classification of the competition, second in their category and the special Accenture prize .

In this contest, organized by the Autonomous University and which has already reached its fourth edition, the participants had to solve a series of problems using what they had learned in their degrees related to data structure and algorithms. They had a total of 5 hours to do this. The highest score was obtained by the team that solved the most problems in the shortest possible time.

Experience is a degree

According to Jesús Sánchez Oro, one of those responsible for coordinating the competitive programming teams at URJC and a professor at the Department of Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Computer Languages and Systems, and Statistics and Operations Research, "this year the students came very motivated and have played a great role. It was the second year that we participated and the experience has been noticed”

In addition to the Victorious Secret, the Java Masters team, made up of Iván Martín de San Lázaro, Javier Hernández Osuna and Alejandro García Rodríguez, 2nd-year students, won second place in their category.

The next challenge for the URJC competitive programming teams will be, as Professor Sánchez Oro explains, “the Southwest Europe International Competition, which is held in December in Paris. It is a qualifying contest that scores for the world championships. We are going to try to take three teams from the URJC”, he indicated.

The Ada Byron contest takes its name from the figure of the mathematician Ada Lovelace (born Byron), one of the main figures in the history of computing, considered the first computer programmer.