WVU Computer Team Makes Mark West Virginia University's student computer programming team finished fifth in an intercollegiate programming contest November 6 at Virginia Tech. If we continue this in future years, we can move up in the rankings and attract more good students to send to these competitions. The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest gives college students a chance to demonstrate and sharpen the problem-solving and computing skills they have learned in school.
Teams first compete in regional contests held around the world each fall.
Finals are in the spring. The Mid-Atlantic competition draws students from colleges and universities in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. In this year's competition, teams had five hours to solve eight programming problems, with first place going to the team that solved the most problems correctly. Members of WVU's programming team are all computer science students. Thom Bartold, a computer science lecturer, is the assistant coach.