Dhaka-Sana
Syria will participate in the 45th final of the World University Programming Competition, which will be held in the capital of Bangladesh “Dhaka” on the tenth of this November, in addition to teams from 65 universities around the world.
According to a statement by the organizing committee of the competition, SANA received a copy of it today, representing the Syrian teams from the universities of “Damascus, Aleppo, Al-Baath and Tishreen”, the Syrian Virtual University and the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, which are among the qualified teams of the Arab regional competition.
The competition includes high-level software issues and is a way to bring together a group of university students, programmers, trainers and academics working in the field of informatics worldwide in one place, and aims to enhance creativity and teamwork, encourage the construction of new software and enable students to test their abilities and performance under pressure.
Each team consists of three members and a trainer who work on one computer for five continuous hours to solve a set of life problems programmatically, where the first place will be awarded to whoever succeeds in solving the largest number of problems in the shortest possible time.
The competition is called the "War of Minds", and it is more than just an academic and technological competition, as it constitutes a ground for building a collaborative global information society.
Helena Hindi
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