Results of ACM-SAUDI National Programming JAM 3.0

       

Sponsored by ACM CHAPTER in SAUDI ARABIA.

The competition is organized by the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Prince Sultan University. Summary of Programming Jam 3.0 .pdf

Leaderboard

Rank	User	Score	University
1	SRS	570.00	King Saud University
2	S2B	565.00	Prince Sultan University
3	ATOMS	543.34	King Saud University
4	ICODE	531.67	King Saud University
5	IT_GEEKS	487.23	Prince Sultan University
6	MASTERMINDS	481.11	Prince Sultan University
7	BLACK_HAT	462.23	King Abdulaziz University
8	THE_ULTIMATES	457.78	King Saud University
9	KSU11	451.34	King Saud University
10	OneBlock	442.78	King Saud University
11	SEU1	366.67	Saudi Electronic University
12	SEU2	366.67	Saudi Electronic University
13	PSU_COMPUTER_LAB	335.00	Prince Sultan University
14	EFFAT_TEAM_B	328.34	Effat University
15	MAHMOUD_AHDAB	323.33	Prince Sultan University
16	NAHAR_RAM	299.45	King Abdulaziz University
17	USE_CASE	296.45	Prince Sultan University
18	JAVA_ANGELS	281.67	King Saud University
19	PSUXplode	273.01	Prince Sultan University
20	SWES	261.66	King Saud University
21	QUPROGRAMMERS	235.00	Qassim University
22	TEAM_TAIBAH	230.00	Taibah University

For complete list of ranking, please refer to https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/programming-jam-3-0/leaderboard

 

What is ACM-SAUDI Programming Jam 3.0

The Programming Jam 3.0 is an annual programming contest that is organized by the ACM Chapter in Saudi Arabia annually in Prince Sultan University. After the successful previous events, this year, this competition was open to all students of Universities in Saudi Arabia, as a new form of gathering programmers at national level and as a joint event among Saudi Universities.

This programming contest falls under the umbrella of ACM Professional Chapter in Saudi Arabia and is organized by the College of Computer and Information Sciences of Prince Sultan University to nurture the innovation, creativeness and collaboration to help and support new groups of software programs.

It also helps the students to test their ability to perform well under pressure with limited time. The contest will follow the format of the traditional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). More details about the Programming Jam 3.0 can be found it its website: http://psu-saudiarabia.acm.org/event/psu-acm-national-programming-contest/

 

55 students’ teams participated from 8 universities registered and participated to the contest

 

The map shows the distribution of number of accesses to the landing page of ACM-SAUDI National Programming Jam 3.0 from March 05, 2017 until 19 March 2017. In Total, 577 new users accessed the page where the majority came from Riyadh Province with 390 users.

 

Dissemination Process

The ACM-SAUDI Programming Jam 3.0 organizing committee has made sure to reach all Universities in Saudi Arabia by implementing a dissemination plan to send the call for participation to all Universities in Saudi Arabia. Since March 5, 2017, the call for participation was sent by emails to faculty members of the universities in Saudi Arabia.

We tracked the access to the landing page of the ACM-SAUDI Programming Jam 3.0 using Google Analytics. The table below shows the statistics of page access per region of Saudi universities.

The table below shows the statistics of page access per cities in Saudi Arabia.

Teams

In response to the call for participation, we recorded 55 teams from 8 universities in Saudi Arabia. The table below shows number of registered teams.

University	Number of Teams
Prince Sultan University	5 males, 13 female
King Saud University	1 male, 20 female
King Abdulaziz University	6 female
Effat University	3 female
Saudi Electronic University	1 male, 5 female
Princess Norah University	1 male, 4 female
Taibah University	1 female
Qassim University	1 female
Prince Suttam University	1 male

82% of registered teams are female students, where as 18% are male students

 

Programming Problems

The Programming competition contained 14 programming problems proposed for students to be solved in Java. The list of the problems titles is presented in the following table.

	Problems Titles
1	The Coin Change Problem
2	Array Combinations
3	Social Relationship Analyzer
4	Verification
5	Golf Tournament
6	Crossword Counter
7	Alien Codes
8	Markov Matrix
9	Semantic Mind Reader
10	Flash Disk Storage
11	Permuted Words
12	Path Crossover
13	Even Sheep
14	Pattern Recognition

14 Programming Problems to Solve in 14 Hours. 6 Hard Problems, 4 Medium Problems, and 4 Easy Problems

Tight Competition 

The competition on the first rank was very tight and serious among the first four teams, since the first hours. The atoms1 (KSU) team was ranked first in the start of the competition, and then in the last six hours, the teams srsTeam (KSU), s2b_team (PSU) and icodeksu (KSU) were fighting seriously on the first rank in the competition.

The last 20 minutes were intense between the srsTeam (KSU) and s2b_team (PSU). Until 20 minutes before the end, srsTeam (KSU) was in leading position, and s2b_team (PSU) was in first position, and this last until 5 minutes before the end of the competition where the srsTeam (KSU) ripped out the first position at the very last minutes. We congratulate the srsTeam (KSU) team for this outstanding achievement, and for s2b_team (PSU) and atoms1 (KSU) for the second and third positions.

Organizing Committee

Credits are granted to the organizing committee of the ACM-SAUDI Programming Jam 3.0, which have demonstrated an excellent commitment to the success of the event.

Name	Role
Dr. Anis Koubaa	ACM Chapter Chair, Organization Chair
Dr. Liyakathunsia Syed	ACM Chapter Vice-Chair, Organization Co-Chair
Ms Layal Kazma	ACM Secretary & Logistics Committee
Ms Malak Al-Shedokhi	ACM treasurer
Ms Roohi Jan	ACM Chapter Membership Chair
Dr. Basit Qureshi	Hackerrank Administrator
Mr. Omar Ghalem	Chair of Programming Problems
Mr. Yasir Javed	Logistics Committee
Ms Ishrat Khan	Logistics Committee
Dr. Evi Mansor	Web Administrator

The organizing committee would like to thank the following people at Prince Sultan University for their help:

Dr. Mamdouh Alenezi, the CTO of IT at Prince Sultan University for helping with providing IT facilities and access during the week-end.

Dr. Sofianiza Abd Malik, Ms. Malak Alshadokhi, Dr. Evi Mansor, Ms. Isharat Khan, Ms. Noura AlGwaiz, Ms. Reham Al-Skireen, Dr. Suad Alramouni, Ms. Layal Kazma for helping with proctoring students during the event.