Exebit

Exebit is the annual technical festival organized by the department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, India. It attracts participants from all over India, and seeks to provide collegiate students with a platform to showcase their talents in computer science and engineering. The festival hosts a plethora of both online and on-site events. The previous and first edition of Exebit (formerly CSFest) was held from 28 to 29 March, 2009 and 4 to 5 April, 2009. Exebit 2010 is scheduled to be held in February 2010.
Events at Exebit 2010
Events at Exebit 2010 will involve both online and on-site events. Online events will be held on the exebit website and on-site events will be held in the Computer Science Department, IIT Madras .
Online Events
Verilog Programming
The contest is a freestyle contest where the participant given the description of a circuit that needs to be designed along with a set of test cases that need to be verified in order to ascertain that the circuit actually works. The participant is free to choose the hardware description language of her choice to develop the circuit. Some of the tasks may involve implementing packet look ups in hardware, signal processing in hardware, or a PID controller, etc.
Fighting Bots

In Fighting Bots, the contestants will be required to build an artificially intelligent game of Dots and boxes, conforming to a very simple API that will be provided. The API provided by takes care of connecting to a server, providing a second player, and giving visual feedback of a running game. The participants will need to translate their thought process and strategy into structured algorithms, and put it according to a simple interface. The bots will compete agains others in various knock out rounds online.
Online Programming Contest
The contest will feature challenging problems and will be algorithm intensive. The contestants must submit solutions in the form of programs to problems posed on the contest portal. Time and memory constraints will be specified for every problem. The prerequisites are basic C/C++ coding knowledge, a browser and a text editor.
Puzzle Champ
The contest will pose a set of fun puzzles for contestants to solve. The puzzles may be solved through logic only.

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