I dont have any intentions to write down long long novel resembling stories. Tech Tatva ‘08, the annual tech fest of Manipal Institute of Technology is commencing tomorrow. This four day long fest will showcase the best technical event and talents in the college. This time some categories have taken an inititatve to organize the event in a revised way, just waiting to see the outcome.
Lets start with Param, the category in which am involved. There are four events under this category - CodeBytes, Puzzle Mania, MobiVision 1.0 and Jour.
CodeBytes is the classical coding championship which has the highest turnout amongst all the events under Param. It is to be held tomorrow, 8th Oct. This time this event has been changed quite a lot. The first round is the prelims which contains less than even 20 questions and more than an hour given to solve. Debugging and writing the output of code snippet has been given more importance. Only those who have good understanding of C/C++ are bound to clear this stage. The lab round is not that puzzle round as it used to be. The questions will be quite simple, the efficiency of the program will be taken into consideration. We would give them simple questions, the marking is to be done on the total execution time of the program. The POSIX time command will be used to calculate the total execution time. People are required to code in Dev C++ with MinGW as compiler. This portable code will then be transferred to Linux systems, compiled using g++ and then using time command, tested for total time use.
Note: Turbo C++ is not allowed. We highly discourage this old and crappy compiler.
MobiVision is another event which is unique of its type, we focussed much on PyS60 and Android, though other mobile platforms are also welcome. We have recieved satisfactory number of abstracts. This event is on 10th October during the afternoon. The shortlisted students are asked to give a presentation of the app which they made, just a working protoype is required. Based on the ideas and implementation, the teams would be ranked.
The last event is Jour. If people can remember, last year it used to be called Night Out when some coding champs would loose their sleep for finding a solution to a puzzle. It’s all gone! Now you have more than 18 hours, make a fully working software application in the stipulated time. The final shortlisted students are required to give a presentation of the application they made to the judges and audiences. The questions will be put up on the site, keep a watch.
