Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi student Kalash Gupta has won Season 10 of TCS CodeVita, the global coding competition. Gupta, a third-year computer science and engineering student from IIT-D, was one of the participants among 100,000contestants from 87 countries.
Earlier, Kalash Gupta had also secured the 3rd rank nationwide in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admission to the IIT in 2018 and topped the entire Delhi zone.
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CodeVita, a coveted coding contest holds the Guinness World Records title as the world’s largest computer programming competition.
The contestants who secured the second and third positions were from Chile and Taiwan, respectively.
All four winners of the CodeVita contest will get an internship opportunity with TCS Research and Innovation organization.
A total of 21 Indian students from different universities have been featured in the list of the world’s top coders.
Gupta was felicitated by IIT Delhi director Rangan Banerjee.
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“When I started with the contest, I never thought I would even be in the top 3, but this is a very humbling experience I’m very excited about the prize money ($10,000). Initially, I was not confident, as it took longer than I expected to solve the first problem. But as I progressed, solving some of the other problems, I gained more confidence over my final standing, and I was confident that I would be in the top 3,” told Gupta as mentioned in the TCS Press Release.
CodeVita: A Coder Contest
CodeVita has been designed to promote programming as a sport and it aims to encourage participants from all over the world to pit their skills against each other. They all face real-life challenges in the competition.
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