Students of the Applied Informatics programme won first place in the UnIT Challenge

Competitiveý tým Alt+F4 composedý of students of the secondýyear of the BacheloráGreeképrogram Appliedá Computer Science have had a uniqueý ú rush in programming´ competition UnIT Challenge, whichá took place on 16. and April 17, 2021. In strong competition from several other Czech technical colleges, a four-member team from V PJ managed to take the first place in the Frontend category.

UnIT is a programming competition designed for students of universities & colleges, which is organized annually by BEST Prague. Its úm úcircle is to make students in caranténce not only to do something, as the organization's úgrads state, but also to learn what is so úlnýme at many šcolleges. Thus, it solves specificétní úcols from the practice of aýhundredýalgorithmicýlohs.

Své šbatterí in competition, whichá took place 16th and 17th. April 2021, also decided to try Michal Blažejovský, Filip Kulí šek, Michal Hrdina and Jan Korbel, classmates from the secondéThe second year of the BachelorááGreekáprogram of Appliedá computer science at the Department of Technicalástudiesá VŠPJ. Together, they created a tým with the Alt+F4 and entered the Frontend category focused on the frontend of a web application for one of the competition partners, Showmax Engineering. „The„goal was to create a functional web application within 29 hours. We were a little worried at the start that the category would be purely about creating web design, according to the násound category. But in the end we decided that some of the work should also focus on the backend, i.e. on the overall functionality. In rámci týmu we therefore split into two halves,“ uvádí Michal Blažejovský. „It was quite nách 29 hours. During the wholeé competition I slept about an hour and a half and Michal Blažejovský two and a half hours. Honza and Filip even managed to stay awake for the whole time,“ addedá with ú laughing Michal Hrdina. The fact that the students had to communicate with each other online via the Discord platform contributed to the overall nánáness.

Fullé deployment throughout the competition made týmu Alt+F4 pay off in the end. During the announcement of the ší inýtraces, the students learned that theiráthrow in the strongé competition of otherýtým composed ofýe.g.´students of CTU or BUT was successful. „Theýsequence was quite unexpectedý. We were hoping that we would be able to attend some of the medalý events, but when the thirdá and secondá mí hundred were gradually announced and no one was heard, I thought that unfortunately it was notše. But the opposite was true in the end,“ describes Michal Blažejovský moments when he learned about the vý game. For the first place in the UnIT Challenge, the students received valuable prizes such as a 3D printer, a keg of beer or a half-day tour of Valeo's testing polygon.

For more information on tý&anythingí&cí about the UnIT Challenge, please visit here. Soon you can look forward to an interview with the members of týmu Alt+F4 on the Polytechnicast podcast.