| A Journey through 2025 with Turing Hut |
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| Greetings Readers,
This relaunch edition takes you through Turing Hut’s journey in 2025, a year filled with innovation, learning, and collaboration. From thrilling coding contests and insightful workshops to community milestones and impactful initiatives, this newsletter captures the essence of what made 2025 an exciting chapter in our story. Dive in as we revisit the moments that defined our year at Turing Hut! |
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| | | CodeRush – Fastest Fingers First Exclusively for 1st and 2nd-year students, this C programming showdown tested speed and logic, drawing 200+ enthusiastic participants on February 21,2025. |
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Convergence Coding Contest 2K25 witnessed 500+ participants from across the nation showcasing their coding prowess. With Round 1 online on February 17,2025 and the grand finale offline on February 22,2025 the event delivered intense problem-solving actions. |
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Turing Cup 2k25 - One Team. One Dream The flagship national-level coding contest of Turing Hut, Turing Cup 2K25, brought together 1400+ top coders from leading institutes across India. With an online qualifier on HackerRank (April 7, 2025) and a grand finale on Codeforces at VNRVJIET (April 19, 2025), the contest showcased unmatched competitive spirit, teamwork, and coding excellence, standing tall as one of the most prestigious nationwide coding battles of the year. |
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| | COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP- Where Curiosity Meets Code
Turing Hut organized a two-day online Competitive Programming Workshop on July 5–6, 2025, for first-year students.The sessions covered core algorithms, problem-solving strategies, and popular coding platforms, followed by a hands-on contest. Participants showcased great enthusiasm, tackling real-time challenges with passion and skill! |
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CodeFrenzy 2k25- Selection Contest for 2nd Years Turing Hut hosted Code Frenzy 2K25 on 30th August 2025 from 1:40 PM to 4:00 PM in the onsite labs at VNRVJIET, serving as the official selection contest for second-year students to join its peer-to-peer learning program. Conducted on HackerRank, the event tested participants’ coding logic, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills. The top performers earned a spot in Turing Hut’s program, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and growth in competitive programming. |
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Decode ICPC Turing Hut hosted Decode ICPC on 6th October 2025, an inspiring online session featuring alumni K. Sreekar Vyas, D. Nisritha Reddy, and I. Shashank Varma, who shared insights and strategies to help students prepare for the ICPC Regionals and strengthen their problem-solving skills. |
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CODEVERSE- The Battle for the Perfect Algorithm Begins Turing Hut hosted CODEVERSE, an Avengers-themed flagship coding competition, on 28th and 29th October 2025 at VNRVJIET. Featuring three exciting rounds being Coders Assemble, Codefinity War, and End Game: The Final Battle. The event culminated in a 4-hour ICPC-style finale on Codeforces. With over 150 teams competing for a ₹15,000 prize pool, CODEVERSE was an electrifying showcase of skill, speed, and strategy. |
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CodeRush- Fastest Fingers First CodeRush is conducted as part of Convergence 2K25R on November 3, 2025, this thrilling C programming challenge brought together sharp-minded first and second-year coders for an intense test of logic, speed, and precision. With 200+ participants showcasing their problem-solving prowess, CodeRush once again proved to be a crowd favorite, igniting the competitive spirit among budding programmers. |
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Convergence Coding Contest 2k25R The Convergence Coding Contest 2K25R, held as part of the national technical fest, witnessed 600+ participants from across the country demonstrating exceptional coding skills and creativity. With Round 1 conducted online on November 2, 2025, followed by the grand finale held offline on November 4, 2025, the contest brought out the best in competitive programming through intense and engaging problem-solving rounds. |
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ICPC Chennai Regionals 2024 |
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Team “Wrong Angled Triangle” comprising Sreekar Vyas Kurudi, Nisritha Reddy Dampuru, and Shashank Varma Indukuri achieved an impressive All India Rank 42 after topping all other college teams in RankList2, proudly qualifying for and representing the college at the ICPC Chennai Regionals 2024.
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Another talented team from Turing Hut, “StrawHatz” featuring Prabhas Koya, D. Manorath Reddy, and Arvind Sai R, secured an outstanding All India Rank 73 after topping all other college teams in RankList1, proudly qualifying for and representing the college at the ICPC Chennai Regionals 2024 .
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| ICPC Amritapuri Regionals 2024 |
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Team “Wrong Angled Triangle” comprising Sreekar Vyas Kurudi, Nisritha Reddy Dampuru, and Shashank Varma Indukuri achieved an impressive All India Rank 90 after topping all other college teams in RankList2, proudly qualifying for and representing the college at the ICPC Amritapuri Regionals 2024 .
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Another exceptional team from Turing Hut, “StrawHatz” featuring Prabhas Koya, D. Manorath Reddy, and Arvind Sai R, secured an impressive All India Rank 137 after topping all other college teams in RankList1, proudly qualifying for and representing the college at the ICPC Amritapuri Regionals 2024 . |
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And that marks the end of Turing Hut’s journey through 2025.Now, take a moment to unscramble the words and put your minds to test!
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Game of Code Play: A scrambled word will be provided along with a hint from the world of coding. Read the hint carefully as it points you to the correct answer. Unscramble the letters to form a valid word that matches with the hint.
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| Your <Time/>; Starts Now
a. GREMOREST → Stable O(n log n) sort. b. ZIMPOTIE → Make code run faster. c. BASHTEHAL → Key–value table. d. PONEXCITE → Error-handling. e. OEDFRSCEOC→ Popular online coding platform. f. TRANSCONITS → Limits/rules given in a problem (inputs, ranges). g. TURNER → Gives something back (a statement in functions). h. TACKS → LIFO data structure. i. YINABR → The base representation for bit manipulation. j. LAYED → What sometimes causes TLE (hint: makes your program wait).
You will know your answers soon as you scroll down. In the meantime, go through some reads of coding as given below.
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AtCoder, Japan’s leading competitive programming platform, has surpassed 800,000 global registrations, continuing its remarkable growth since 2016. With AI transforming the coding landscape, AtCoder partnered with Sakana AI to launch ALE-Bench and even hosted an AI vs Humans exhibition match sponsored by OpenAI. The platform remains committed to innovation and community growth. To continue reading, click here. |
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This article provides a beginner’s guide to competitive programming — from learning languages like C++ or Java and practicing on platforms such as CodeChef and AtCoder, to mastering Data Structures, Algorithms, and Dynamic Programming. It also highlights key resources like cp-algorithms and CSES, emphasizing consistent practice and learning from contests. To continue reading, click here. |
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That wraps up our list of interesting reads. Now, it’s time to put your skills to work in the given problem section! |
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Here’s a great problem we think you’ll enjoy solving: problem link. Have any experiences, opportunities or articles to share? Fill out this form to be featured in our next newsletter. Thanks to Shreyas(23071A05U2), Vinati(23071A05D4), Anika(23071A04K4), Amogh(23071A3208) and Balaji(23071A1216) for contributing to the newsletter. |
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| a. MERGESORT b. OPTIMIZE c. HASH TABLE d. EXCEPTION e. CODEFORCES f. CONSTRAINTS g. RETURN h. STACK i. BINARY j. DELAY |
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