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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
Like every year since 2015, Google launches its 'Google Hash Code', an event in which teams from around the world will try to score points to solve, in the best possible way, a complicated problem proposed by the company's engineers .
The Móstoles campus will be, next February 28 between 18:00 p.m. and 23:00 p.m., a competition node of this event, for the second consecutive year. As Jesús Sánchez Oro, professor at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, points out, "we already have about forty students enrolled and we hope to reach 60". Last year, 40 students participated.
The teams, Sánchez-Oro points out, "are made up of first-year and fourth-year people with various degrees: Computer Engineering, Video Games or Cybersecurity." From the Competitive Programming group, "we use the event to publicize this type of event and to make it a contact for those who have not yet approached this world", she adds.
The professor points out that this is favored because "the atmosphere is more relaxed than in other competitive programming contests such as Ada Byron, for example," says Sánchez-Oro. "At this event, every step counts, and participants can get a lot better at programming."
The event to be held at the University will be one of hundreds of events taking place around the world during the first stage of the competition, which takes place online. The best of this phase will go on to the face-to-face final, which will take place at Google's headquarters in Dublin, during the month of April.
Sánchez-Oro points out that “the level of this international competition is very high, so we will have to see what level we reach at the national level”.
Registration is still open and you can find all the information in the profile of Twitter of the URJC Competitive Programming group.