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Student team wins computer programming contest
Longwood student team of Chris Thatcher (from left), Jeff Anway and Nick Pastore won an on-campus computer programming contest that featured 16 teams from eight colleges.
October 2011
A Longwood student team won a computer programming contest that featured 16 teams from eight Virginia colleges.
Teammates Jeff Anway and Chris Thatcher, both juniors, and sophomore Nick Pastore placed first in the first-time invitational contest held Oct. 22 on campus, which featured teams from William & Mary and Washington & Lee. The contest was co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Longwood’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In the contest, students worked in teams of three to design programs that solve challenging mathematical and practical puzzles. The goal was to correctly solve the most problems in four hours. The winning Longwood team solved five problems correctly.
The participants included “some of the most talented programmers in the state,” said Dr. Robert Marmorstein, assistant professor of computer science and adviser to the Longwood ACM chapter.
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