AWARDS & EVENTS
Second prize in JobStreet.com Code Challenge
UTAR student Lim Yun Kai won the second prize in the inaugural JobStreet.com Code Challenge held at UNITAR International University, Petaling Jaya, on 13 June 2015.
Lim is a first-year Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons) student from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT). He walked away with a mock cheque of RM1,500, an IPRO Livepad Tablet and an IPRO SENSE EGO 2 smartphone.
JobStreet.com Code Challenge is a competition for programmers in Malaysia to work on interesting and challenging problems. It was conducted in two stages. In the first or qualifying round which was conducted online, 63 participants were shortlisted for the grand finals in UNITAR.
Lim expressed his appreciation to their mentor-cum-FICT lecturer, Dr Ng Yen Kaow. He said, "I want to thank Dr Ng for his invaluable guidance and for helping us to prepare for the competition. He is such a dedicated lecturer and he even asked us to go to his house so that he could train us more in the art of programming." Dr Ng was also credited with starting a Facebook group that has sparked the culture of algorithmic problem solving among FICT students.
*Photo courtesy of JobStreet.com