In our previous post we promised some pictures from the Java programming competition Codingball 2008, so here they are.

Early birds were gathered for a half an hour before the beginning of the Codingball 2008 registration, eagerly awaiting for competition to start. After one trial task, which got our competitors familiar with the system and warmed them up, competition has begun.

Four silent hours and seven wicked algorithm problems later, it’s all concluded with Milos Lazarevic as a winner, and Ilic brothers – Aleksandar and Andreja, taking the second and the third place, respectively.

Radomir Mladenovic, jury president (standing in the middle) monitors preliminary system testing, while competitors have one trial task to solve

The winner, Milos Lazarevic (in the middle) receives the 1st prize from Mladen Stojanovic, CEO (on the right). The 2nd place prize goes to Aleksandar Ilic (on the left)

Congratulations to the best three competitors, as well as all the others who put the fierce fight throughout the event.

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Codingball 2008 – Coding Challenge, the programming competition organized by the student association EESTEC and Troxo is going to take place in our offices on Saturday, May 10th 2008. Twenty-two talented students have been selected to compete in algorithms and Java programming.

Each programmer will be given seven tasks and four hours to solve them. The competitors will upload their code for each task to the centralized, automated Programming Contest Control System which will evaluate the solution and update the scoreboards. The competitor who solves the most of the tasks wins. If two competitors solve the same number of tasks, the faster one wins.

We are looking forward to this event and hope to have a lot of fun and meet interesting people. The three best competitors will receive some very nice prizes that we have prepared, and we are throwing a party for all the competitors and organizers later in the evening. We’ll get back with some pics after the event.