The final stage of the “PASHA Bank Cup VII” programming competition, organized by “Pasha Bank” and with the organizational support of the Institute of Information Technologies and Methodological Support in Education of the Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU), was held for the seventh time in order to support the development of the information technology (IT) sector in the country, to reveal the potential of young people studying in this direction, as well as professionals working in IT, and to improve their skills.

Participants of various age groups, including schoolchildren, students and professional programmers, joined the competition, which has been held by “Pasha Bank” since 2019, and tested their programming and algorithmic knowledge.

The first two stages of the competition, which consisted of three stages (stage I: data structures, search and sorting algorithms; stage II: dynamic programming, graph theory; topics) were held online.

60 participants who showed high results in the two stages qualified for the final. In the final round held at AzTU, participants were given the task of designing a program for 6 algorithmic problems within 4 hours and testing them on the “HackerRank” platform. According to the results of the competition, winners were determined in 3 categories (pupil, student, professional).

The first three winners in each category were awarded valuable gifts by “PASHA Bank” (1st place “MacBook Pro M3”, 2nd place “iPad Pro 11 M4”, 3rd place “Apple watch”).

Kenan Askerli, an employee of the Institute of Information Technologies and Methodological Support in Education of AzTU, was awarded 2nd place in the professionals category.