Last Saturday, 26th October, the Águeda School of Technology and Management (ESTGA-UA) hosted another edition of MIUP – Inter-University Programming Marathon, an annual event organised by various Portuguese universities for more than two decades.
For 5 hours, several teams with a maximum of 3 members competed in the programming competition, where students had to solve between 9 and 11 different problems using the C, C++, Java and Python 3 programming languages.
The University of Porto participated with 3 teams:
– “TSP – Tiny Silly Problem”, with 1 element from M.EIC (Marco Filipe Gonçalves Vilas Boas), 1 from M.IA (Félix Marcial Alves Martins) and 1 from M:CC, which came 2nd and won the silver medal;
– “Long long main”, with 3 members of L.EIC (Luis Wolffrom Barbosa, Luís Miguel Costa Gonçalves and Sofia Rebelo Sá e Sousa), who came 4th and won the bronze medal;
– “Tasca Debuggers”, with 1 member from PDCC (ex. MEIC), 1 from M:SI and 1 from M:CC, who came 11th.
André Restivo, faculty member at DEI/FEUP, and Pedro Ribeiro, a faculty member at DCC/FCUP, both members of MIUP’s Scientific Committee, trained the 3 teams (the first two with Pedro Ribeiro as co-coach and the third with André Restivo as co-coach).
It was another marathon that, in addition to the competition, was marked by the socialising and exchange of experiences between students and teachers, something that has characterised this event since 2001.
These 3 teams from the University of Porto will represent the institution at the Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC), which will be held this year from 29 November to 1 December at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.