Programming Jam 9

Are you the best developer in Saudi Arabia?

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About

The Programming Jam 9.0 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 will be 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 Department of Computer Science within the College of Computer and Information Sciences at 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. It is going to be 9 hours online coding competition where wide community of colleges and universities students can participate to engage themselves with challenging question about programming.

Prizes

The winning team members will each receive an award certificate. Award certificates will be given to only the first three winners:

  • GOLD AWARD CERTIFICATE, for the first place
  • SILVER AWARD CERTIFICATE, for the second place
  • BRONZE AWARD CERTIFICATE, for the third place

All active participants in the competition will receive a participation certificate, for their efforts and participation. Results will be published on the ACM Chapter Competition website.

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
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By participating in this contest, participants agree to abide by the terms and conditions. By submitting code, students give full rights of ownership of the submitted code to PSU-ACM. PSU-ACM pledges to keep all personal information safe provided during the registration period.

  • Students must provide their current university ID, full name, phone number and personal email address. Failure to register the team will not qualify for the final leaderboard listing. All student teams must REGISTER.
  • By accepting the prize, PSU-ACM reserves the right to use students’ names, photos (male only) etc in future advertisements for the competition.
  • The competition is open for currently registered university students only. University staff and faculty are not eligible to compete.
  • Competition Organizers reserve the right to disqualify teams violating competition rules for any or all of the following breaches:
  • Providing false information about yourself during registration would result in disqualification.
  • Sharing/using from others any information about a problem (including its content/solution) before the end of the competition.
  • Any kind of discussions between teams is strictly prohibited and would result in disqualification of both or more teams.
  • Submitting unethical, lewd, obscene or any kind of morally unacceptable content.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score

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