Young South African Programmer Bags R71000
2008 October 7
“A grade 11 pupil from Kuilsriver, in the Western Cape, has won the top prize in the final round of the Standard Bank/Computer Society of SA (CSSA) South African Computer Olympiad, held in Cape Town this weekend.
Francois Conradie, a grade 11 learner at De Kuilen High School, won R41 000, the Standard Bank trophy and also the top Python programming prize of R30 000.
The computer Olympiad is an annual competition said to identify, encourage and reward programming skills among high school learners. More than 23 000 entries were received for the first round this year, and 2 700 for the second round. Sixteen learners were invited to take part in the final round, which took place last week at the University of Cape Town.”
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