Seven competitive programming teams will participate in the Ada Byron contest

The participants have been selected after the local phase held at the Móstoles Campus in which 14 teams made up of students from all courses competed.

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

The Rey Juan Carlos University will have an important presence in the competitive programming contest Ada Byron which will celebrate its V edition on March 8 and 9 at the Autonomous University of Madrid, in which students from public universities of the Community of Madrid participate.

Five third- and fourth-year teams, a second-year team and a first-year team will try to do a great job in this university programming contest. The teams are made up of three students who will compete for five hours trying to solve between eight and twelve problems of different complexity.

Those selected have just passed the local phase, held at the Móstoles Campus. According to Jesús Sánchez Oro, professor at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering (ETSII) and head of competitive programming at the URJC, "the level has been better than we expected, out of nine total problems, the team that solved the most, has solved seven". In addition, he highlights, "two teams that had not participated, resolved five". All teams are made up of ETSII students

The objective of the competitive programming group was to recreate the atmosphere that the teams will find in the Autonomous, "following the result in real time, seeing how each team resolved and how the positions were exchanged," says Jesús Sánchez-Oro.

With that same objective, the proposed problems "tried to cover all the fields, some related to things seen in the course, others more advanced, we even had a problem that could be applied to Facebook," says the professor.

All in order to achieve the best level to face the appointment of the Autonomous University in which Sánchez-Oro is optimistic, "we have a very strong and experienced team, another very fast team solving problems that can cause surprises and two new teams that can work well.

We will have the answer on March 9, when the results of this contest will be known. The Ada Byron contest takes its name from the figure of the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), (born Byron), one of the main figures in the history of computing, considered the first computer programmer.