Orientation Session | Python Coding Challenge 5.0 | Paradox '26

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:13]Are we good to go?

[00:01:00]Thank you so much Paradox team. So good afternoon everyone here. Welcome to the orientation session of Python coding challenge 5.0.

[00:01:11]So are you people excited? Please give me a thumbs up in the chat and then we begin.

[00:01:19]Oh, so nice to see the thumbs up and the excitement.

[00:01:26]I hope you are all doing great and are excited for one of the most unique coding challenge of Paradox 2026 Python coding challenge 5.0. I am Millie Parasha the deputy head >> and I am Harsha the event head >> of PCC 5.0. Z and today's orientation session is all about helping you understand the event structure, rules, rounds, timelines and what makes PCC very different from a regular coding contest. So let's begin. Firstly, I'd like to introduce what is this event about. It is a multi- round competitive programming event focused not only on coding skills but also on communication, teamwork, strategy, and decision-m under pressure.

[00:02:15]This year's event is entirely Python based and consists of three exciting rounds. The event is designed in such a way that the every round feels different and more challenging than the previous one. Whether you are someone preparing for placements, coding interviews, DSA practice or simply love problem solving, this event is for you.

[00:02:41]Okay. So let's see let's quickly go through the important dates.

[00:02:46]Registrations are already open. It was started on 18th of May and it will soon close on 29th of May. That is tomorrow.

[00:02:53]So please get up, ask your friends to join this and have a blast. Our first round is on 31st of May. That is the pilators that will be conducted from 4 p.m. onwards. And for round two and round three that are off offline and on campus rounds and their dates will be announced later soon on meals and your GSPace. So please be hooked to the males and um GSpace so that you get updated for round one. Let's see what we have.

[00:03:29]This is the elimination round and it will be conducted online individually.

[00:03:34]Part participants will solve Python and DSA questions across multiple difficulty levels. Evaluation will be based on correctness, problem difficulty, submission speed, etc. The contest duration will be around 100 minutes and topics would be mainly of DSA things.

[00:03:52]Python basics also will be there and you can just have a look on the DSA stuffs and get up.

[00:03:59]Participants qualifying round one will move to the on campus rounds.

[00:04:04]For that teams will be formed among the qualified candidates.

[00:04:10]This is for the round two that is named code relay.

[00:04:14]It is a relay style coding challenge where each teams have three members and every member performs a completely different role. The person one or say the team leader reads the original problem statement and writes only the explanation or the logic not the code while the person two and three of the team implements the part of the solution debugs completes and submits it. They'll be getting the code editor.

[00:04:41]The twist is no one except the first member sees the full problem statement.

[00:04:47]This round tests your communication skills, logical thinking, team coordination, and pressure handling. So, choose your teammates wisely after round one qualifications.

[00:04:59]Let's move on to round three, the heist.

[00:05:02]This is the final strategy based round.

[00:05:04]Teams complete using coins and bidding mechanics.

[00:05:10]Problems are revealed one at a time and teams decide whether they want to attempt them or not. And that can be done by using the fastest finger first.

[00:05:21]Correct answers can earn points. Wrong submission leads to deductions. The round ends with a final high value challenge that determines the winners.

[00:05:31]This round is designed to create a high energy competitive atmosphere and test both coding and strategic decision making because this will all be based on upon your question selection because every uh every team will be having their unique choices.

[00:05:48]So this is the event flow participation rules. Some important rules are like only Python is allowed throughout the competition. Of course, it's a Python coding challenge. Round one is individual not a team based. On campus rounds will be conducted in team of three.

[00:06:11]You have to bring your own laptops, charger and institute ID for offline rounds. Use of any kind of AI tools, unfair means or internet assistance during the contest is strictly prohibited.

[00:06:26]So are your people ready to compete?

[00:06:30]Please give me a thumbs up so that I can.

[00:06:36]Okay, great.

[00:06:38]So please make sure that you register before 29th of May. Okay, of course you people have registered. Please ask your friends to register before 29th of May and we close our registrations. And also ensure that your contact details are correct and you regularly check mails and G-space updates because you may miss the spot.

[00:07:02]Next, now uh that's all from our side regarding the event overview. We genuinely hope to see you enthusiastic participation from all of you. PCC 5.0 is designed to be challenging, fun, competitive and memorable. So now we are open to questions and doubts regarding registration rounds, rules or anything related to the event. You can come one by one. You can just raise your hands and we can allow you to speak.

[00:07:43]Yes, Karen, you can uh go on with your question.

[00:07:47]>> Uh hello, can you hear me?

[00:07:49]>> Yeah. Yeah, you're quite able.

[00:07:52]>> Okay.

[00:07:53]>> Uh so the syllabus or topics covered will be based on Python course. So there will be some extra topics also.

[00:08:04]See uh for this you need uh Python basics knowledge and also the DSA knowledge. So it will for DSA.

[00:08:13]>> Yeah. Uh sorry >> for DSA topics covered in PDSA is enough.

[00:08:20]>> Yeah. Yeah. It will be enough.

[00:08:22]>> Okay.

[00:08:25]>> Any other question?

[00:08:30]Uh hello.

[00:08:34]>> Uh this is Yeah. Yes.

[00:08:38]Hello.

[00:08:39]>> Hello.

[00:08:41]>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh yes. Alen. Uh you're audible.

[00:08:44]>> Yeah. Uh so I'm asking only uh we need to do core Python or any uh other libraries or something we can be uh is like we need to go through some other libraries also like numpy or something like that. It's only going to be the or Python one.

[00:09:01]Uh no the library modules won't be required as we are not uh doing any other uh related stuffs using Python.

[00:09:08]It's more of DSA and Python basics that you all have learned during your Python course and PDSA. Okay. So that would be enough.

[00:09:18]>> Okay. And uh is it going to be in a code editor which is provided by you guys or we can do it any other something like it's going to be how the OPB happens right? something similar.

[00:09:30]>> Okay, for the code editor, we'll provide you a platform and uh that will be updated to you uh like uh at least 24 hours before the event happens.

[00:09:48]Any other questions? Uh we can move on to the next one. Himmanu, >> hi. Am I audible?

[00:09:57]>> Yeah. Yeah, you're audible. Hi manu.

[00:10:00]>> So my doubt is regarding DSA. So DSA is quite large. So basically you will uh just conduct simple data structures like link link tag and all or we have to go with the DPN graph and all.

[00:10:16]uh actually like see uh if I say about the topics you can just uh go to DP and stuff too because you may require in some of the rounds so it's all DSA just uh look to your lead code and codef chefs and everything maybe that could help you and PDSA uh stuffs whatever you have done I guess that would be enough too >> okay thank Is it going to be fully DSA uh all the rounds or in other rounds we'll have something else?

[00:10:52]>> Uh see the like we have coding thing on obviously it's a coding challenge. So we have coding thing only and it's a DSA obviously. So but just the design of all the events are different.

[00:11:06]>> Sorry for the interruption. I'm asking like uh is it some uh some dev stuff also there only we need to do DSA properly?

[00:11:16]>> Uh I'm sorry maybe I'm not able to get your question.

[00:11:20]>> Uh I'm saying like is there any deaf part there in that like you need to make some app sort of stuff or only DSA is there core DSA?

[00:11:27]>> No no no no it's core DSA >> like the contest happens on code forces and all right. Yes. Yes. Yes. You can uh think like that.

[00:11:42]But uh let me be clear. Round one is not coding. It would be more like of MCQs uh fill in uh the blanks kind of things.

[00:11:51]More of these stuffs because you have kind of 100 questions in 100 minutes, right? So that's not possible that if you start coding there. So it's more of MCQs and quiz like Round two and round three which are the offline events that will include the coding part and and that is also a team based.

[00:12:18]Anyone else any questions?

[00:12:20]>> So after round one uh we can form the teams right because when I registered there was nothing for the teams they were asking only individual I can apply something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:12:30]Of course. Because round one is pure individual, you have to everyone has to attempt on their own. After the round one, the people who qualifies and moves towards round two, they need to make the teammates. And for the teammates thing, you people can decide your teammates on your own. And if anyone needs assistance from our side, we can help them too.

[00:12:55]>> Uh hello.

[00:12:57]>> Yes. Are we allowed to use external libraries like numpy?

[00:13:03]uh I don't think so that would be required but if uh if you are comfortable using and it's it would help you uh finding the solution you may but uh let me be clear it's nothing related to machine learning thing or so that you are using pandas or any other modules so I'm just getting that point clear >> yeah I think if it's a core DSA uh contest then I don't think so any either library is needed because that would be unfair in many many of the situations.

[00:13:41]Uh see the thing is like numpy can help you form the array things. So if people are comfortable using in that way so why not >> I mean numpy is okay but no other should be allowed because many times then there are many other pre-builts uh libraries that can very easily >> of course of course that that will be taken care of uh it's more of core DSA and the basic Python that we have been taught till it. So the other built-in libraries won't be allowed. Numpy is fine.

[00:14:26]>> Anyone any other questions?

[00:14:29]>> Uh I have also like a doubt regarding the time limitations or like time constraint. For example, in C++ contest uh we do have time constraint. So in this like you will judge on that also.

[00:14:45]>> Yeah of course. See like uh the the KPS that we are going to judge on would be your speed accuracy. So of course uh if you have to make a tiebreaker thing if two people have given the correct submission and I want to make a tiebreaker that would be on time based right.

[00:15:04]>> Okay. Thank you.

[00:15:06]>> Yeah.

[00:15:08]Anyone else?

[00:15:21]Oh, you're talking about the time complexity.

[00:15:24]uh yeah I guess uh uh for that thing the more optimal solution may get uh like for the scoring basis it's not that necessary but if we need in case of the tie breakers we may go for the optimal solutions >> uh what about brute force approach if someone tries only brute force I don't think so that would be uh a better way around. Uh those submissions would um would get cancelled if that is the approach. Then see it's very simple. uh we will be basically judging you on the basis of how quickly you are submitting the code, how efficient your code is, time complexity and overall the overall completion time and the how many submissions that you are making on the platform. These three factors will be considered and accordingly you will be rated or ranked.

[00:16:42]Do you people have any other questions?

[00:16:54]Uh yes, Deanch I guess uh that is correct. The correctness time complexity time taken. Yeah.

[00:17:04]Uh we'll let you know with the with the cutoff score.

[00:17:08]So we'll let you know about that after the round one submissions.

[00:17:22]Anyone else?

[00:17:44]uh su you don't have to worry about that we'll be having the submissions we can uh just check around because see no two people can write the exact same thing though the logic can be same but there would be some of the other difference so we'll just evaluate from our end and uh I can assure you that would be completely for the evaluation of the MCQs. Okay.

[00:18:14]Proctoring. Yes, it will be uh proctored uh on the platform that you do.

[00:18:30]Um ma'am even though it is soft people can easily uh put the mobile on the screen and easily cheat that's not >> yeah we do care about that that uh people should not uh use any unfair means so uh we'll be uh like the platform that you are doing on >> so that will be proed you'll be sharing your screens and as such no AI tools and everything So don't worry that it will be mostly fair.

[00:19:04]>> Uh even then we can use a mobile and put it on on the screen. So then mobile can't >> one thing I would like to quote here the round one has 100 questions and you have 100 minutes. So each question you're getting one minute right. So even if you're cheating, if you are referring to any sort of AI or external sources, it will take time. And then if someone is doing on their own, reading the question and simply answering it, then of course the difference will be there. And considering the platform we'll be using is having some uh plagiarism and checks going on. So it can be sorted out.

[00:19:43]>> Okay.

[00:19:54]Do you does anyone have any more question?

[00:20:07]Uh I guess you people are clear about everything. If not uh we are available on GSpace and WhatsApp both we can just clear your dots any you get further again.

[00:20:23]So just get prepared.

[00:20:28]Okay I guess this is the end. Uh thank you everyone for your such a good participation. Please ask your friends for the event registration. You prepare yourself. get a good team and ace it. So all the best.

[00:20:49]I would kindly request Paradox team to like uh maybe we can stop the live streaming and the recording.

[00:21:28]Participants can uh start leaving. You are free to go.