ACM launches ‘Code Masters’ to mark five successful years

To mark five successful years of ACM Student Chapter at Chitkara University and as an initiative to impart excellent coding skills to budding engineers, ‘Code Masters’ was launched on February 2.

It is a monthly series of programming competition that will be conducted in collaboration with HackerEarth, which provides a platform to host the competition at campus. First open book programming challenge was conducted on the day of series launch and many students registered online and submitted the uploaded computing problems in a fixed duration of two hours. Nishant Bhardwaj of Department of Computer Sciences, Punjab campus, won the competition.

Chitkara University’s ACM Student Chapter chartered on 28 February in 2010 and the chapter commenced on March 8 in the same year. The chapter was initiated with a goal to generate curiosity among the students for impending technologies in computer science apart from the regular course content.

The chapter constantly endeavors to amplify the practical expertise of its members through expert talks, industry-oriented hands-on courses, workshops, industrial visits, quizzes and debugging and coding competitions.