The Bulgarian Collegiate Programming Contest

Abstract

Republican Student Programming Olympiad (Bulgarian Collegiate Programming Contest – BCPC) is a programming contest for teams of Bulgarian universities have undergraduate programs in informatics. It is held every year on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) rules. The Olympiad is an incentive for the best students to improve in subjects algorithms and programming, and it is also an objective criterion for the level of teaching these subjects in higher schools in Bulgaria. Good ranking of the NBU at the Olympics in recent years is a good reason to make a historical overview of the participation and achievements of universities in Bulgaria in this competition also and to pay attention to preparation in the competitive programming of students at NBU.