{"id":107125,"date":"2020-02-28T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=107125"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:41:32","slug":"ucf-programming-team-earns-bronze-at-north-american-competition-advances-to-world-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-programming-team-earns-bronze-at-north-american-competition-advances-to-world-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Programming Team Earns Bronze at North American Competition, Advances to World Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a bronze medal in hand from last weekend\u2019s North America Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s computer programming team will head to the world competition in Moscow in June.<\/p>\n

Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s programming team has consistently ranked among the best in the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The team, made up of Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ computer science majors<\/a> \u2014 junior Ahmad Barhamje, junior Burnett Scholar Joshua Fair and senior Burnett Scholar David Harmeyer \u2014 finished higher than teams from Cal Tech, Stanford, Princeton, Yale and Cornell, to name a few. Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s programming team has consistently ranked among the best in the nation, winning the ICPC Southeast USA Regional Intercollegiate Programming Contest seven consecutive years, and in 2018 ranked No. 1 in North America and No. 10 in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really rewarding to see so much of the time and effort that we put into training paying off,\u201d says Harmeyer. \u201cMany of the universities that we ended up placing above at the North America Championship are teams that we have trained with in the past. It\u2019s encouraging to see that all of the hard work we put in was worth it when we ended up ahead of them on the final scoreboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ programming team joins 18 other teams that advanced to the ICPC World Finals after competing as one of 59 teams in the North America Championship hosted by the Georgia Tech College of Computing in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Training Problem-solving Athletes<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe tell the team members that programming competition is like any other sport \u2014 practice makes perfect and repetition is the key to perfection,\u201d says faculty advisor Ali Orooji, adding that the team practices 35 to 40 Saturdays a year. Each practice session starts with a lecture, followed by a five-hour mock contest and a discussion. In addition, team members during the week solve problems on various sites and read about various programming problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tell the team members that programming competition is like any other sport.\u201d \u2014 Associate Professor Ali Orooji<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The competitions are akin to large-scale athletic events and the students perform like athletes, says Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Board of Trustees Chair Beverly Seay, who has long been involved with ICPC. \u201cThe hard work, the teamwork to solve a variety of problems under pressure, the dynamic leadership it takes \u2014 like our student-athletes, these are the qualities that give our programmers an advantage in the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the competitions, teams try to solve eight or more complex, real-world problems in a five-hour time limit. Teammates collaborate around a single computer using logic, strategy and endurance that requires precision, problem-solving and an understanding of advanced algorithms. They try to solve the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time.<\/p>\n

Advancing Programmers in North America<\/h2>\n

This is the first year a championship-level competition was held to determine which teams would qualify for the world event. Previously, regional competitions were held to determine which North American teams would move on, but Seay, who was a driving force to add the championship, says the United States and Canada need to be more competitive in computer science, both in student competitions and in the high-tech workforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the need for more computing talent across the country, it is our responsibility to groom the leaders of tomorrow in computer science and related areas.\u201d \u2014 Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Trustee Chair Beverly Seay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The United States faces a global competitiveness crisis in computer science with nearly one million technical jobs left unfilled last year alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the need for more computing talent across the country, it is our responsibility to groom the leaders of tomorrow in computer science and related areas,\u201d Seay says. \u201cWe need to be more competitive internationally and invest in events that give our students opportunities to showcase their best skills to industry and government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpending this much time working on challenging programming problems really helps with both implementation skills in the real world and with being able to solve tough theoretical interview questions,\u201d says Harmeyer. \u201cMost of the applicable theory that gets taught at school is stuff that we master pretty quickly working on our own, so then we move to some slightly more obscure data structures and algorithms, as well as some really interesting problem-solving techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s North America regional competitions started with more than 3,000 competitors to determine which would advance to last weekend\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very good idea to add the additional level [North America Championship] between the regional and finals,\u201d Orooji says. \u201cIt was good to see how we compare against other universities in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preparing the Next Generation of Programmers for the World Stage<\/h3>\n

To help prepare students from North America to become more competitive on the world stage, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ will host a programming camp with top trainers from Georgia Tech, MIT and other universities for about 100 of the top computing students.<\/p>\n

The inaugural North America Programming Camp will be held at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ March 30 through April 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The camps will also provide companies and agencies opportunities to meet with the teams and recruit members for future job or internship opportunities. Plus, Seay says, the camp will help promote Orlando and Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ as destinations for high-tech talent.<\/p>\n

The inaugural North America Programming Camp will be held at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ March 30 through April 3, offering team members the opportunity to practice by working through simulated world-level competitions, and trainers the chance to provide analysis and feedback. To offset the costs for attendees, the camp will be sponsored by Universal Parks and Resorts, the National Security Agency, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman and others that have an interest in recruiting the nation\u2019s brightest computer science students. One of the camps\u2019 and competition\u2019s sponsors, the NSA, gave North American competitors a challenge problem involving cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

Arup Guha, an associate instructor of computer science and one of the team\u2019s seven coaches this year, says Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s three students have a strong general knowledge base, but they also have specific strengths in different areas.<\/p>\n

For example, he says, Harmeyer\u2019s strength is geometry problems; Fair\u2019s background is nontraditional dynamic programming problems, string problems and ad hoc problems; and Barhamje tackles data structures and graph algorithms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve really worked on with this team is collaboration,\u201d Guha says. \u201cThey already work well together and in contest they confer with each other before committing to a particular solution path. We\u2019ve found that this improves the team\u2019s accuracy on harder problems, when two of the students think about a problem, to make sure they agree on the general approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Companies or organizations interested in sponsoring the spring programming camps at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, should contact Sean Farrell<\/a>, associate director for advancement in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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