Shoonyah Abhikalan

Abhikalan is a Not-For-Profit Initiative by students of NIT Raipur and Vishal Gupta, also known as Aasthik, a Social Worker known for his Social Service Groups like Paritraan and eGurukul-Bhaarat. Vishal Gupta used to take care of the Talent Acquisition for R&D Wing of a reputed MNC, and now he often uses his experience to bridge the gap between expectations of Industry and Skills of Students by conducting various kinds of training sessions in Universities across India.

Through Abhikalan, we aim to provide a platform for young programmers to hone their technical proficiency w.r.t. Coding/Programming Contests and Interview Questions of Core Software and R&D Wings of MNCs.

In the past, we have trained students of 70+ Institutes across 23 States in India - IIT Dhanbad, MANIT Bhopal, MNNIT Allahabad,NIT Trichy, NIT Raipur, NIT Agartala,XIM Bhubaneshwar, YMCA UST Faridabad, BIT Mesra, BIET Jhansi, KIIT Bhubaneshwar, NIIT University and Chitkara University to name a few. If you would like to invite us to train students/faculty at your institute, drop a message to Vishal at his LinkedIn Profile.

You may also practice questions from other Programming Contests organized by Vishal-

1. Prathamah Abhikalan
2. Dwitiyah Abhikalan
3. Microsoft DreamSpark Programming Contest 2011
4. Microsoft DreamSpark Programming 2010 - 3rd Contest
5. Microsoft DreamSpark Programming 2010 - 2nd Contest
6. Microsoft DreamSpark Programming 2010 - 1st Contest
   

This Zeroth Contest, called Shoonya-Abhikalan was organized on 1st November 2014.

Abhikalan literally means "Computation" in Sanskrit. Abhikalan is meant to be a platform of learning for young programmers through Computational Programming.We believe that Competition and Contests helps prepare for real-life pressure situations.

The idea is to train young programmers for Coding Contests and Interview Questions asked by various Core Software and R&D Wings of MNCs.

We suggest that Brute Force solutions should be avoided and solutions should focus on optimization of time, space, power and cyclomatic complexity.