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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 open to all school students across the country, from any school board.
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.
The first round of the Indian Computing Olympiad is in two parts. The Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO) is a written exam that is held at centres across the country around November-December. ZIO-2012 will be held on Saturday, November 19, 2011.
In addition to ZIO, students can also also qualify for the second round by taking part in the Zonal Computing Olympiad (ZCO), an online programming contest, held soon after ZIO. ZCO-2012 will be held on Saturday, November 26, 2011.
The second round, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) is held at centres across the country in January. INOI involves programming in any one of three languages: C, C++ or Pascal. INOI-2012 will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2012.
About 25 students are selected from INOI for a training camp held in June-July to select the Indian team for IOI. IOI-2012 will be held in Italy in September, 2012.