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Thursday, February 29, 2024

24 Feb 2024 - National Olympiad in Informatics 2024 (NOI)

Javier had registered himself for the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2024 and he went for the qualification round today.

The National Olympiad of Informatics (NOI) is hosted annually by the School of Computing of the National University of Singapore.  The NOI is modelled after the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the ultimate international competition in computing.  NOI emphasizes creativity in problem solving on the one hand, and programming skill and expertise on the other.

According to Javier, the key challenge is not simply about solving the problem.  The computer program used to solve the problem must run efficiently and should return a result within few seconds.  He managed to solve a few problems, but his codes were not very efficient and took few minutes to run.  Anyway, there were many other participants who could not even find a solution.  When I looked at the questions, I think I'll probably score zero because I could not even understand the question.

Hope he'll qualify for the final.  :-)


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