SOI 2009 launched - log in and get started!

The tasks of the first round of the Swiss Olympiad in Informatics 2009 are online. Young computer enthusiasts can show their programming skills until November 30th and exchange their ideas with others.

Ruben Andrist
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If you are amongst the best participants, you can win prizes, a spot in our training camp in Davos or even a Ticket to the International Olympiad in Informatics 2009 held in Bulgaria. To participate, sign up for an account on this webpage and submit your solutions until the end of November.

All official participants of SOI 2009 must have been born on or after July 1st 1989, and may not be enlisted as a student at university.

Community for Young Programmers

Can you teach your computer to navigate an undiscovered underground maze? During the 14th Swiss Olympiad in Informatics, young computer enthusiasts can show their programming skills and exchange ideas with other coders from Switzerland and abroad. During several rounds, participants are writing programs to efficiently and elegantly solve several tasks. We will invite the best participants to Davos for further preparation for the national qualification. And with some luck they can get their hands on one of the tickets to the IOI 2009 in Bulgaria during the Swiss Finals.

Several Challenges

How many turns on the wheel will get Stofl to his loved piece of Swiss cheese? Should he invest in the Cheese stock market given the current situation? All tasks are wrapped in short story for illustration and require several skills from the participants: They must first analyze the mathematical aspects of each task to find an efficient solution. This strategy must then be employed in a computer program - written in a language of choice during the first round, but limited to C, C++ and Pascal at later stages of the qualification. During the course the participants get to know a programming and will get familiar with the basic Algorithms step by step. Experienced Users are challenged with subtle tasks and can try their luck with this year’s interactive creativity challenge «Cake».