Recently our computer science department ran a competition to encourage first year students to practice their coding skills. Codingbat.com is a website with live coding problems which can be completed to earn points.
Nick Parlante, creator of CodingBat and computer science lecturer at Stanford University said, “CodingBat is all about building and practicing small code problems. I'm trying to create an environment where people can concentrate on just the coding itself. Going through many practice problems is a great way to solidify your understanding of how the code should work.”
The College competition ran for half a term just before Easter and the five students with the highest number of points won a prize. Rachel Welch and Alexander Fedotov won first prize with 870 points, the highest marks available, having completed every possible coding challenge on the site - an outstanding achievement!
In second place, with a total of 498 points, was Callum Hobbis. Ben Knights came third with 270 points, Timofey Udovidchenko was fourth with 154 points and Liam Errington came fifth with 152 points.
Congratulations to all the winners of this year's CodingBat competition!
