Welcome to TCS CodVita Season VII ♥
Introduction
Purpose of the Contest
- Help TCS Spot the bright students
- Provide students an opportunity to showcase their programming talent and earn peer recognition and honour
- Provide an opportunity to showcase offerings of TCS to the academic world
- Provides a platform to students to practice and enhance their programming skills
- Provide exciting career opportunities for students in TCS
Structure of the Contest
- Pre-Qualifier Round (Round 1):- Will be conducted as two zonal rounds, a participant will be tagged to one of the two zonal rounds. Details are provided in the round description section.
- Qualifier Round (Round 2): - Will be conducted once the pre- qualifier rounds is completed globally. Top performers from all the zonal rounds will compete in the qualifier round. Details are provided in the round description section
- Grand Finale: The top 30 to 40 students from the qualifier round will take part in the Grand Finale and the top 3 ranked students will win prizes amounting to USD 20,000. Details are provided in the round description section.
- MockVita : To help contestants warm up for the contest, practice round(s) will be open to participants who have registered for the contest.This helps you get almost-real-feel of the Contest before the Pre-Qualifier Round. Timeline for the same would be communicated subsequently.
Participant Registration
Important Notes
Starts : 28th March, 2018, 04:30 UTCEnds : 15th July, 2018, 18:30 UTC
Takes Place : Online
TCS CodeVita 2018: Particpant Registration
Eligibility:: Coders from institutes across India who are completing their academic course in 2019, 20, 21 and 22 alone are eligible for this contest. Registrations are invited from students in under graduate/ post graduate programs related to engineering/science background with any specialization.
TCS CodeVita 2018: Registration Guidelines
- To register for the contest, one has to log on to Campus Commune portal.
- Students who are already registered on campus commune can directly register for the CodeVita.
- For new users, you will have to sign-up on campus commune and then proceed to register for CodeVita.
- It is an individual contest.
- Each registered participant will be receiving a unique secret code or link at a later stage to take part in the contest.
- This code/link is of utmost importance to take part in the contest rounds and should not even be shared between team-mates The Secret code/link will also be a part of login credentials for the contest platform.
Any student who is not a bonafide student from institutions or universities in INDIA, registering for INDIA Phase Pre-Qualifier would be disqualified and would not be permitted to participate in the Global Phase Pre-Qualifier as well.
TCS CodeVita 2018: General Guidelines
- The infrastructure / software(s) required for compiling code solutions shall be borne by the individual participant or the institution he/she represent. TCS will not be liable for any damage to the institute’s infrastructure which may be caused by participants from the institute during the contest.
- Language compilers are open source applications that can be downloaded from the internet. Participants will need to submit the compiled solution to a problem only. For example, codes written in Java should be submitted in .java format
- CodeVita platform supports coding in multiple programming languages. Language and supported compiler / interpreter versions will be updated shortly. Broadly the following programming languages will be supported in the contest - C,C++,C#, Java, JavaScript, Pearl, PHP Python, Ruby. Addition of other programming languages will be updated.
- Coding Guidelines will be provided as separate document. It will include information on scoring and ranking of teams in different rounds, list of URLs from which compilers and IDEs can be downloaded and other coding related instructions
TCS CodeVita 2018: Pre Qualifier Round
Important Notes
Starts: 27th July, 2018, 04:30 UTC
Ends: 11th August, 2018, 04:30 UTC
Bounty: 1000 Points
Takes Place : Online
The Pre- Qualifier round will be 24 hours contest window and each participant is provided with 6 hours of time to solve the questions. Pre-Qualifier round is done in INDIA as well as Rest of the world separately. This season there will be two zonal rounds in INDIA for Pre-Qualifier.
Details of the zone and the schedule for each zone is as follows
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Students can check the branch they are part of from their profile page on Campus Commune and take part in the applicable zonal round.
TCS CodeVita 2018 : Qualifier Round
Important Notes
Starts: 4th December, 2018, 04:30 UTC
Ends: 5th December, 2018, 04:30 UTC
Bounty: 2500 Points
Takes Place: Online
This season Qualifier Round (Round 2) would happen after the completion of all the Pre-Qualifier rounds across the world.
Top performers from the zonal rounds globally will move into this round.
Each participant will be provided with 6 hours of time to solve & complete this round
The date given here is tentative and the qualifier round is scheduled to be conducted in the first week of December
TCS CodeVita 2018: Grand Finale
Important Notes
Start : 25th February, 2019, 05:30 UTC
Ends: 25th February, 2019, 14:30 UTC
Bounty: 5000 Points
Takes Place: At the Venue
Will be held in one of the TCSL offices in India.
Top 3 contestant will be declared as winners of the contest.
Winners (Top 3 contestants) will receive a total cash prize of USD 20,000.
TCS will be extending internships and offers to top coders from the contest
The grand finale is tentatively scheduled to be conducted in the last week of February, 2019. (The date indicated is subject to change)
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