Participation in Oman Collegiate Programming Contest (OCPC)

The students of Information Technology Department at UTAS-Ibri participated in the Oman Collegiate Programming Contest (OCPC), organised by Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). The programme was conducted over two days, from 5 to 6 November 2021. 

The contest goals were to gather all Oman institutes in one place, to improve the students' programming skills, teamwork skills, and to mimic international contests. 

UTAS-Ibri students who participated in OCPC are Aryam Al Maamariyh and Said Al Qassabi, and their coach was Ms Sara Said Al Shukaili, under the team’s name “Ibri Programmers”. 

The team ranked as one of the top ten teams, among 46 teams from 22 institutes. The top three winners will participate in the higher version of the contest, the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) which will be conducted in Egypt.

The nature of the contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students where they must solve problems given by one of the programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Kotlin.

The contest was a challenging one, designed to get better performance. Valuable experience was gained, including knowledge about the contest, a special training programme for the students to be aware of the questions, their difficulty level, and how to write efficient solutions