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About the Indian Computing Olympiad
The Indian Computing Olympiad is a nationwide competition organized annually by IARCS in coordination with CBSE. The goal of the competition is to identify school students with outstanding skills in algorithms and computer programming.
The Indian Computing Olympiad is used to select the team of four students to represent India at the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI). IOI is one of the six prominent Science Olympiads held annually. The other five Science Olympiads are held in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy. IOI-2009 will be held in Bulgaria in August, 2009.
The first round of the Indian Computing Olympiad 2009, the Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO-2009), will be held at centres across the country in November, 2008. The exact date will be announced in Septermber, 2008. ZIO-2009 will be a written test accessible to students from all schools and will not require any actual computer programming.
The second round, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI-2009) will be held at centres across the country in January, 2009. INOI-2009 will involve programming in any one of three languages: C, C++ or Pascal.
The Computing Olympiad is open to all school students across the country, from any school board.