13-02-2016, 12:34 PM
INTRODUCTION
Sports are a great way of bringing out character of a person. A spectrum of emotions ranging from hope to despair, monotony to excitement, boring to interesting, mediocre to extraordinary performances are seen in every sport known to mankind. The purpose of sports, apart from physical and mental fitness, is to evoke these emotions. TCS feels strongly about promoting the culture of Programming-As-A-Sport. TCS CodeVita, a programming contest, is TCS’s way of attracting young impressionable college students to adopt this culture and experience joy of programming.
PURPOSE OF TCS CODEVITA
We are in the era of User Generated Content (UGC). Technology is changing fast, and Data is being created at a pace never experienced before. Skilled manpower is required to harness the power of this vast data and new technologies. Programming skill is the foundation for a rewarding technical career. After running two seasons of the contest in India, TCS has perfected the contest model and platform. It’s now time to make a Global impact and reach out to other geographies. The main objective for the global contest is to sharpen the contestants' programming skills through real-life computing practices.
The contest also has other objectives:
Spot bright talent
Provide platform and opportunity to showcase programming talent, and earn peer recognition and honor
Showcase TCS offerings to academia
STRUCTURE OF THE CONTEST
CodeVita is a team contest, with two members in each team. The contest comprises three rounds of coding. Team members need to register individually, on the CodeVita registration portal. The registration portal provides the required team formation workflows. Only workflow-completed, valid teams can participate in the contest.Since we are working with different geographies across the world, we have divided the Contest into two Phases Registration windows open up at different times for different geographies. In Phase 1,registrations from Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Australia, South Africa and India will go live in July-Aug 2014. UK, China, Singapore and Japan will go live in Phase 2, in October 2014. The registration phases have been timed to coincide with academic year start dates of the respective geographies. Going forward, more countries or phases may be added.