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By Tachyon, 14 years ago, In English
CodeFest'11, the annual online international coding festival of Computer Engineering Society IT-BHU, presents Manthan - the algorithm intensive programming contest. The name Manthan or मंथन has been taken from the Hindi language and means Brainstorming. Google Logo CodeFest Logo

The contest aims to provide a platform for programmers round the globe to showcase their problem-solving and programming skills. Most problems of the event will be real life computing problems where coders will be required to prune existing standard algorithms to find the solution for the domain specific application of the algorithm.

We are proud to have Codeforces as our partner for Manthan 2011. The Contest will be hosted on Codeforces and will follow the rules similar to that of Codeforces Beta Round.

Google Sponsored event with Prizes worth 50,000 INR. Besides, Certificates to top 50 participants. 

You need to follow the registration procedure in order to be eligible for prizes.

Event Details:
  • The main event is scheduled on March 13 at 2200 Hrs IST (UTC+5:30)
  • Rules of contest similar to Codeforces Beta Rounds.
  • The Contest will be of 3 hours consisting of 5-6 problems.
  • Programing languages allowed: C, C++ , Pascal, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, F# and Haskell.
  • Open to all, students as well as professionals.
  • Declaration of Results on March 16 at 1800 Hrs IST.
Note: Contest duration has been reduced from 4 to 3 hours.

Visit the Manthan event page for further details of the contest.

Registration for the competition will occur automatically on the fact of your registration on the official CodeFest site. If you have been properly registered there, then your Codeforces handle should appear in the list on http://codefest.org.in/codeforces-handles.php, and registration for the contest will take place
automatically.

The contest duration changed to be 3 hours. Good luck!

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