The open Pan-Armenian programming contest named after Vladimir Yeghiazaryan took place at Russian-Armenian University on May 22. The contest was organized by RAU, CodeSignal, OneMarkedData (OMD) and Enterprise Incubator Foundation.

Both school and university students as well as experienced programmers took part in the contest: a total of 97 teams from different schools, universities and IT companies from Armenia and abroad. Students from Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan State University, American University of Armenian, European University, Polytechnical University, State University of Architecture and Construction and Artsakh State University were joined by schoolchildren from Quantum and Photon colleges and Physics and Mathematics Specialized School after Shahinyan. 

Tigran Piliposyan, RAU programming team lead, Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematical Cybernetics, notes, “Representatives of world-renowned companies, such as Google, PicsArt, CodeSignal, OMD, Mentor Graphics and others participated in the contest. What is particularly noteworthy is that schoolchildren from various cities of Armenia and Artsakh, i.e. Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor and Stepanakert, also joined us showing profound knowledge.”

The pan-Armenian programming contest included 14 problems, compiled by Russian-Armenian University graduate, Director of Engineering of CodeSignal, RAU team trainer Eduard Piliposyan. To solve the problems, participants could use the following programming languages: C++, Java, Python 2/3, C#, C, Kotlin, Ruby, and PHP.

 

The results of the online competition were as follows: team "SPACE" (Samvel Andreasyan and Mesrop Andreasyan) took first place. "TiMvOrQ" (Arsen Hakbardzumyan and Vahagn Altunyan) came second, and the team "Return of Dzec! Dzuk" (Alexandr Abelyan and Araik Khalatyan) were third. 13 teams got II degree diplomas and 10 teams received III degree diplomas. 

To remind our readers, Vladimir Yeghiazaryan was the founder and the first dean of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Russian-Armenian University and the leader of many brilliant generations of university students and PhD students.