Directi announces online programming contest

MUMBAI, INDIA: Directi, the leading internet products company has announced the launch of CodeChef Campus Snackdown, a team-based online programming competition for students in India.

The first round will take place online on November 21, 2009 from 7 pm to 12 am. The top teams from this round will be flown to Mumbai for a final in-person round culminating later in January.  Winning teams will receive up to Rs. 3 lakh and top teams from each college will receive recognition on the site, said a press release.

Bhavin Turakhia, founder, chairman & CEO, Directi said, “India is home to some of the best engineering talent. Today we have lakhs of engineers graduating every year. However, due to lack of adequate resources, the developers or programmers either move abroad or shift to the more lucrative services segment of the IT industry."

He added, "CodeChef was founded to address this need of programmers and provide them with a platform to compete, interact and hone their programming skills. Campus Snackdown is the largest of CodeChef competitions so far. The mega contest is aimed at a vast pool of budding engineers to provide them with the right opportunity.”