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CS Students Show Strength at Credit Suisse Coding Challenge

December 17, 2019

Congratulations to Loc Bui '22 and Vladimir Maksimovski '22 for their excellent showing at the 2019 Credit Suisse Coding Challenge!

Loc Bui place 5th globally and 1st within the US, and Vladimir Maksimovski placed 3rd within the US. The University of Rochester placed 4th overall globally and 1st within the US.

The Global Coding Challenge is an inter-university online coding competition between students across the globe. Over 3 weeks, between 2nd Oct and 23rd Oct, students would attempt solutions to 6 coding problems. Solutions were evaluated on efficiency and scored proportionally against solutions provided by other students. Student could improve their code as many times as they like during the completion.

A full list of global winnners can be found here.