SWERC
Edition : 2023
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Description : SWERC is an international programming competition that brings together the best and brightest teams from the southwestern region of Europe to solve complex problems in a limited time.
Discover the event on : Official website - Youtube
The 2023 edition of SWERC took place in Milan, Italy! We were 120 teams in competition.
Project members :
I/ How did I discover this competition?
During my computer science degree at the IUT of Lens, there were occasional SAE (Situation of Apprentice and Evaluation). In semester 3, our teacher decided to realize a small algorithmic competition between the different students of the promotion. This one was based on the same codes / constraints as the original competition, i.e. the SWERC.
So, at the end of this mini-competition, he announced that we could make 1 team to participate in SWERC!
So we accepted the challenge, and agreed to represent our IUT!
II/ SWERC’s objective
Our goal in the competition is to solve as many problems as possible in 5 hours!
During this edition there were 12 problems to solve. Problems (not sorted) whose order of difficulty increases exponentially!
III/ A competition under constraints
The first particularity of SWERC is that we have, during these 5 hours, no access to internet. However, we have the right to a 20-page paper memo.
Then, second particularity: only 1 computer per team!
IV/ Review
It was a really interesting and enriching experience!
I was able to meet a lot of people, to acquire new automatisms in particular to think about a given problem, or to deepen my knowledge of the Python programming language.