SESSION ON COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING VS DSA

TechCom, the official society of the CSE department, MAIT organised an informative session on the topic "Competitive Programming" in collaboration with Coding Ninjas on 3rd October 2021 from 6 pm to 7 pm. The speaker for the workshop was Mr Shantanu Shubham(SDE Schlumberger). The event had a turnout of about 40 participants. The session began by explaining the difference between programming and competitive programming. Mr Shantanu advised the students to first have thorough knowledge about the DSA concepts and then to proceed further with competitive programming. The speaker encouraged the students to take part in coding contests organised by platforms like codeforces, codechef etc, to hone their programming skills. He also informed about various companies that hire freshers through these competitive programming contests. The session ran for about half an hour after which there was a 20 minutes question and answer round.