Vietnamese students are indifferent to the international programming exam

For the first time, Vietnam hosted the Asia-Pacific qualifying ACM / ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) but there are currently just over a dozen domestic applications registered. As a rule, each school and academy is allowed to participate in many teams.

The event will take place at Hanoi University of Technology and Hanoi National University from November 25 to 26. At the official website of ACM / ICPC, there are nearly 30 teams registered to participate with well-known names such as Tianjin University, Qinghua University, Nanjing Aviation University (China), Punjab University ( Pakistan) . Some teams from Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore have also announced their preparations.

But on the Vietnamese side, there are only a few representatives of the Hanoi University of Maritime and National Studies, the Faculty of Information Technology of Hanoi Open Institute, Hanoi University of Private Management and Business, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology . Hanoi University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic, Ho Chi Minh City's Natural Sciences, Military Technical Institute, and Posts and Telecommunications Institute . still have not found any problems even though the organizers often send invitations and inform 70 universities, colleges and institutes throughout the country.

Explaining the "indifference" of the Vietnamese teams, Mr. Nguyen Long, Head of the ACM / ICPC Organizing Committee in Vietnam, because the domestic schools are still familiar with the style of opening the new official application form. " It should be noted, ACM / ICPC is an international standard contest, overdue registration will not be considered and screened ," Long advised. " This is a great opportunity for domestic students to practice and get used to new styles in the international integration environment. Moreover, the team name and school name will be saved in the list of 7,000 schools from 6 continents. Continuing to join the competition ".

ACM / ICPC is a long-standing and prestigious programming competition in the world with compulsory subjects such as thinking (algorithm) and programming skills (group resolution and coordination).With the sponsorship of the American Computer Association (ACM), the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM / ICPC) was held for the first time in the country in 1970. By 1977, there was a joint contest. link.Since 1989, the competition has expanded to a global scale and is based at Baylor University (USA).Contest teams wishing to enter the finals must qualify to be held at prestigious universities.Since 1997, after the sponsorship of IBM Group, the scale of the competition has strongly developed when tens of thousands of excellent students in the field of computers from many universities around the world participate.ACM / ICPC aims to develop creativity, team work and innovation in how to build software programs, while allowing students to test their performance under a very high time pressure. .

This contest is considered an opportunity for students of universities and colleges in the country to practice, develop creativity, ability to work in groups, innovate in the way of building software programs, under pressure. Very high time force and ability to use English in homework. IT students are also exposed to international standards, contributing to training human resources in the industry.

As a rule, each university and college can send one to many teams (each team consists of 3 students and 1 coach) to participate in regional qualifiers at the Hanoi University of Technology exam or 1 of 12 Asian ACM / ICPC qualifying scores. Participation fee is 1,000,000 VND. Teams participating in the 'pagoda' Olympic Games VN Student Olympics in 2006 were completely free. Particularly, teams in Hanoi area can take care of their accommodation by paying only 300,000 VND (if registering at other exam sites in Asia, the fee is normally 100 USD). The same way of exam for students in the Informatics and Student Olympics in Vietnam takes place annually.

Teams can register online with the squad list before October 20. In addition, students register freely under the ACM / ICPC standard (self-named team) but must have the consent of the school.

The contest uses English, online examinations, public results in the same day . In the Board, the experts, professors, long-time lecturers in the Council have a national title. students - Vietnamese students, who won high prizes in international programming competitions working abroad. It is expected that there will be 4 prizes for each level of gold, silver and bronze awarded to the top 12 teams. The winning team will attend the final, scheduled to be held in Japan in March 2007.

In 2005-2006, there were 5,606 teams from 1,737 universities in 84 countries competing at 183 regional test sites. There were 83 teams who reached the finals and the BK-Eagle team at Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic University after passing the Asian regional qualifiers in Iran (November 2005), representing Vietnam for the first time to attend the final round. Global ACM / ICPC exam in the US (April 2006), surpassing some of the better-rated countries in the region such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia.

In previous years, many Vietnamese students studying abroad attended ACM / ICPC but in the name of another national team because Vietnam did not have an official name in the registration list. Typically, in 2005, at the Coimbator - India test site, there were 9 Vietnamese students participating in the qualifying round but not as representatives for their homeland.

Nguyen Hang