DWITE
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DWITE is an online computer programming contest intended for Canadian secondary school students. The main goal of the DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest is to provide an avenue for Canadian secondary school students to practice for more recognized programming contests like the Canadian computing competition and the ECOO programming contests.
[edit] Contest Structure
The contest is a time-restricted team competition. Registrants must be students of a school and are allowed a maximum of four people per team. Teams are given 3 hours each to properly program solutions to 5 questions. Submissions are made to a submission e-mail with specific registration information in the subject and the program attached. Programs are to input and output from .txt files and the automated DWITE judge compares outputs with solutions. Part marks are given to partially correct outputs and a time-bonus is also alloted for every five minutes before the end of the contest when submitted.
[edit] Origins and Development
W. Sentjens created the DWITE Contest from the brainchild of his students on returning from the ECOO final programming contest in 2002. The idea was realized on June 7, 2002 when W. Sentjens programmed the first DWITE judge in Delphi and Turbo Pascal. The contest ran without problem other than scoring errors. The reattempt was made when the DWITE judge was written in Visual Basic. The following contest ran into crash problems and again inaccurate scoring. The DWITE judge and server is now currently housed in either St. Thomas Aquinas CSS or the home or W. Sentjens from an Intel Pentium 4, 3.00 GHz, 0.98GB RAM computer running Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 1.
