IT contest at PU

LAHORE - Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), in collaboration with four multinational IT companies including Confiz Solution, TKXEC, Technology Accelerated and North Bay Solutions, organize Code Spree 2011 (Intra Lahore Speed Programming Competition) at the College. As many as 150 students from 25 information technology schools across the city participated in the contest and tested their programming and information technology skills. PUCIT students team Code Warriors comprising Muhammad Umair, Imran Khalil and Aman Ullah clinched first position, University of Engineering & Technology students team Trio-Legend comprising Ali Raza, Jawad Ahmad Malik and Hafiz Iqbal bagged second, while third position was shared by PUCIT team _BCSF7A comprising Fawad Ahmad, Muhammad Shaban and Sohail Javaid and COMSATS team COMSIANS comprising Sarmad Makhdoom, Agam Saran and Saad Ullah Khan. Congratulating the winning teams, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran said success was not possible without developing a will and thoughts in mind. Later, the Vice-Chancellor distributed prizes among the winning teams. Fifty teams, comprising three participants each, were given four hours to find solutions to seven complex programming problems using C++ and Java. Programming solutions by the teams of Government College University, University of Engineering and Technology, COMSATS, Lahore University of Management Sciences, FAST, University of Lahore, University of Education and Beaconhouse National University were particularly appreciated by the judges.

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