NMSU CS senior Jonathan Beck, going by his gamer alias, JooDoc, placed 8th overall in CodinGame’s Vox Codei programming competition. In this global, on-the-web competition, Jonathan was the first ever American to make it into the top 10, beating out 673 others who made it to the end. A total of 1,313 entered the contest worldwide. In addition, Jonathan took first place in the C++ sub-group.

Vox Codei presents students with game-like problems to solve using their programming language of choice. For example, the first task shows a stationary science-fiction-style cannon and the player must program it to shoot down enemy spacecraft that are approaching it as efficiently as possible using console input / output. Players are given a program stub, a scenario, and a set of test cases, and must complete as many test cases as possible by writing efficient code to control various game elements.

Written by: Zach Toups
December 10, 2014