Bitwise IIT Kharagpur
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Bitwise is an online programming contest. The contest is time constrained and posed with difficult programming and algorithms challenges, to be solved in a short span of 12 hours.
Bitwise was started in the year 2001 by the 4th year undergraduate students of the CSE Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
. The contest provides programmers across the globe a platform to compete, testing their ability to develop efficient algorithms to problems within a given time constraint. Over the last five years, the contest has become popular around the world. In Bitwise 2k9, over 3000 teams participated from over 50 countries.
Registration is free and open to all. Contestants need to solve a set of problems posted on the site using C
or C++
. The solutions are evaluated, not only on the basis of correctness, but also on their execution time and space complexities.
Bitwise 2010 was held on 14 February 2010 and saw huge participations from 65 countries. There were a total of 3500 teams formed by over 7000 participants. The First prize was won by team Eryx from Warsaw University, Poland. Team Ajaysomani from Google, India won the Second prize and the Third prize is awarded to team Urbo from University of Latvia, Latvia. The prize for the Top Indian Team also went to team Ajaysomani from Google, India.
Previous years problems are available for download and practice on the Bitwise website.
Enigma is a puzzle game which was incorporated as a part of Bitwise 2007. It presents itself as an exciting and appropriate precursor to our central challenge - the gruelling time-constrained, algorithm intensive Bitwise. There are a total of 25 levels with each level requiring a password to unlock it.
The puzzle itself was inspired by the Enigma machine
which was used by the Nazis to encrypt and decrypt messages during the second World War. It was up to the great Alan Turing
to lead the forefront while breaking the code in Britain. History reveals how successful he was in cracking the code.
Bitwise was started in the year 2001 by the 4th year undergraduate students of the CSE Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is an autonomous engineering, technology and management oriented institute of higher education established by the government of India in 1951...
. The contest provides programmers across the globe a platform to compete, testing their ability to develop efficient algorithms to problems within a given time constraint. Over the last five years, the contest has become popular around the world. In Bitwise 2k9, over 3000 teams participated from over 50 countries.
Registration is free and open to all. Contestants need to solve a set of problems posted on the site using C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
or C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
. The solutions are evaluated, not only on the basis of correctness, but also on their execution time and space complexities.
Bitwise 2010 was held on 14 February 2010 and saw huge participations from 65 countries. There were a total of 3500 teams formed by over 7000 participants. The First prize was won by team Eryx from Warsaw University, Poland. Team Ajaysomani from Google, India won the Second prize and the Third prize is awarded to team Urbo from University of Latvia, Latvia. The prize for the Top Indian Team also went to team Ajaysomani from Google, India.
Previous years problems are available for download and practice on the Bitwise website.
Enigma is a puzzle game which was incorporated as a part of Bitwise 2007. It presents itself as an exciting and appropriate precursor to our central challenge - the gruelling time-constrained, algorithm intensive Bitwise. There are a total of 25 levels with each level requiring a password to unlock it.
The puzzle itself was inspired by the Enigma machine
Enigma machine
An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I...
which was used by the Nazis to encrypt and decrypt messages during the second World War. It was up to the great Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...
to lead the forefront while breaking the code in Britain. History reveals how successful he was in cracking the code.