MCC 2014

Key Dates

• 23 September 2014: Deadline for registration.
• 3-25 September 2014: MCC 2014 demo problem available for practice.
• 26-28 September 2014: MCC 2014 Competition Days (Time: 12:01am on 26 Sept 2014 to 11:59pm on 28 Sept 2014).

Overview

What is MCC?

The MCC (Malaysian Computing Challenge) is an annual online computing competition. Participants will be required to have some basic programming knowledge in order to solve the problems.

Organizers

MCC is brought to you by the Malaysian Informatics and Programming Society. See our About page for more details.

Beyond MCC

MCC is the preliminary selection process of a year-long program to identify and train the top programming talents in Malaysian schools. Top scorers in MCC will be:

• Invited to a programming camp, tentatively to be held in December 2014.
• Upon successful completion of the camp, to be invited to the Malaysian Computing Olympiad (MCO), a real-time programming competition, to be held tentatively in April 2015.

The top scorers in MCO will be called for a series of intensive training camps conducted by experienced Olympiad participants. Students who qualify at this level will participate in Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO), an annual online contest among countries in the Pacific Rim region. After the training camps and APIO, four students will be selected to represent Malaysia in International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2015 which will take place in Kazakhstan on July 2015.

Format

The format of MCC 2014 is an online competition. Students will need access to a computer and internet in order to participate in this competition. Note that this is different from the previous year’s paper-based competition.

Problems in MCC 2014 are split into 2 parts – the easy tasks and the challenging tasks. No programming is required to solve the easy tasks on MCC 2014. In order to solve the challenging tasks, however, we recommend participants to learn the Python programming language using this tutorial. The best way to prepare for MCC 2014 is to attempt our demo problem.

Each participant will be assigned a log-in credential (a username and a password), which will be sent by email to the Teacher-in-Charge on 23 September. The Teacher-in-Charge is responsible of notifying all participants of their log-in credentials. The usernames and passwords will work only during the contest period.

Note that MCC problems are given only in English.

Categories and Awards

There are three categories for the MCC:

• Bongsu / Junior – Form 1, 2, 3, or Primary school;
• Muda / Intermediate – Form 4, 5;
• Sulung / Senior – Form 6 (lower & upper), Pre-U (Matriculation, Foundation Studies, IB, A-Levels, etc.).

All students will take part in the same competition, but prizes will be awarded by category. There will be individual and team prizes. Individual prizes are Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention awards. The best performing five students in each category will automatically be in the school’s team. Teams are ranked according to the total of their individual scores. Team prizes are also Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention awards. Please consider sending at least five students per category. This would allow your school to qualify for a team prize.

Registration

Eligibility

The MCC is open to all primary, secondary and pre-university students in Malaysia.

Form

Please read the section on Overview the Malaysian Computing Challenge first before you register, as the section contains all the relevant information about MCC 2014. We will only accept online registration. To register, please download the following order form (Excel file): MCC 2014 REGISTRATION FORM

Complete the form, and return it (in Excel format) by email to mcc [at] ioimalaysia [dot] org along with payment of the registration fee. You may keep a printed copy of the form for your official record; it is not necessary to send a hardcopy to us. Your registration is considered complete once we receive the completed form and payment. We will send a confirmation email within 3 working days.

Fee

The registration fee for MCC 2014 is RM 15 per participant, or RM 12 per participant if there are 31 or more participants from one school.

Payment Method

You may pay the registration fee via bank-in or online transfer to our bank account (info below). Payment should be uploaded (via registration website) after submission of participants list to finalize the registration.

Bank account information:

Account Name: PERTUBUHAN INFORMATIK DAN PENGATURCARAAN MALAYSIA
Account Number: 8600213076
Bank: CIMB Islamic Bank (Taman Danau Kota branch)

Independent Participation

We strongly urge that anyone interested to participate to talk to your school teacher about sending a team. In the case that your school is not sending a team, or you are not currently attached to any school, you may register as an Independent Participant. If you would like to participate as an Independent Participant, please ask your parent to register on the registration website above.

Honour Code

All participants in MCC 2014 agree to that he or she will:

• Not discuss the problems with anyone else during the competition time;
• Neither share solutions nor post solutions online during the competition time;
• Notify the organizers (mcc [at] ioimalaysia [dot] org) immediately if he or she becomes aware of other participants cheating.

During the competition, usage of search engines like Google and access to all online references like Python Tutorial are permitted.

Result

Senior Category

Intermediate Category

Junior Category