IIT, Hyderabad wins CodeVita coding challenge

More than 83,000 college teams from all across the globe competed in the fourth global coding challenge for students, CodeVita organised by Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS).

Two teams from India — IIT Hyderabad and D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai along with University of Charles, Prague won the top three spots, respectively after a hard fought contest held at CMC Auditorium, TCS Synergy Park, Hyderabad last week.

TCS CodeVita, is a contest for engineering and science students to experience the joy of coding and to sharpen their programming skills through real-life computing practices. The contest also aims at identifying the talent, besides providing the student community, an opportunity to earn peer recognition. TCS is promoting learning though fun and contests like CodeVita as programming is becoming the skill for future and provides a fast gateway to technology career.

This year’s CodeVita witnessed 197,639 registrations from 3708 colleges. Out of this 83,000 teams made it to the phase 1 and the top 15 teams from this moved to the final phase of the contest. The Top 15 teams who flew to Hyderabad to compete in the Grand Finale included 12 college teams from India, one team from Slovakia and 2 teams from Peru.

The team comprising Adarsh Pugalia and Shalin Shah from IIT Hyderabad bagged CodeVita’s 1st prize of $10,000. The team from Kunal Kukreja and Monik Pamecha from D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, wo the 2nd prize of $7,000, while Jana Batoryova and Jakub Dargaj from University of Charles, Prague bagged the third prize of $3,000.

This coding challenge is now considered among the largest competitions of its kind for students anywhere in the world.