Poland wins world computer coding championship
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
11.06.2014 08:55
The 'Need for C' team of programmers from Poland have been crowned the inaugural World Computer Coding Champions, beating teams from Brazil, Russia, Slovakia and Finland at the finals in Helsinki.
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Wojciech Jaskowski, Tomasz Zurkowski and Piotr Zurkowski pocketed the first prize of 5000 euros and 3-D printed medals at the Hello World Open on Tuesday after being set the task of coding an artificial intelligence (AI) programme to race a self-driving car.
The final round of the first ever world coding championships, held at a former Nokia factory in the Finnish capital, came after qualifying rounds involving 4,000 computer programmers from 90 countries.
"I worked 10 hours a day for almost 40 days on the code for this. But to be world champions now in coding feels unbelievable, it is really something special,” Piotr Zurkowski, a student at Poznan University of Technology told IBTimes.
Brazil took second place and Finland third. (pg)
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