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Insights, tutorials, and experiences from the NSUPS community.
Bootcamp Spring 2026
We are excited to announce our Spring 2025 Bootcamp, a comprehensive training program designed for students who want to excel in competitive progr...
NSU at the ICPC World Finals
A glimpse into North South University’s remarkable journey and achievements at the ICPC World Finals, highlighting its teams, participants, and the co...
Introduction to Competitive Programming
Competitive programming is a mind-sport where participants solve algorithmic problems under time constraints. There is an emphasis on logical (mostly ...
Bit Manipulation Techniques
Computers store numbers in 0's and 1's. These numbers are represented in binary. Dire...
Prime Numbers I
"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away." - Mark Haddon
Graphs I - Basics of Graphs
Graphs are an essential idea in mathematics and computer science. It is an abstraction of any kind of connection between things. For example: relation...
Bootcamp: The Gateway to Joining NSUPS
NSUPS is a community passionate about algorithms and problem solving. We specialize in competitive programming, an engaging extracurricular activi...
Humans Of NSUPS #003 – Mohammad Samiul Islam
Mohammad Samiul Islam is probably the brightest star in the sky of NSUPS. Arguably the best problem solver NSUPS has ever seen, he was the workhorse o...
Humans Of NSUPS #002 – Ahmad Faiyaz
After a long break, we are back again with our Humans of NSUPS series. This time our story is about Ahmad Faiyaz.
Humans Of NSUPS #001 – Pinku Deb Nath
We are going to start a series of stories about our respected ex-contestants from North South University. Our very first story is about Pinku Deb Nath...
How To Get Prepared For Bootcamp
This tutorial will help you to get introduced to competitive programming as well as gain the basic skill set required to be able to participate in the...
Introduction to Competitive Programming
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ACM ICPC Dhaka Regional 2017
ACM ICPC is considered as the Olympics of Programming. One of the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world and regionals ...
IUT 9th ICT Fest 2017 Programming Contest
On 14 October 2017, NSU participated in IUT 9th ICT Fest 2017 Programming Contest and the top 5 teams from NSU secured the 16, 17, 27, 29 and 61st pos...
SUST Inter University Programming Contest 2017
On 05 August 2017, NSU participated in SUST Inter-University Programming Contest and the top 5 teams from NSU secured the 2, 26, 66, 82 and 95th posit...
SUB Inter University Programming Contest 2017
On 05 August 2017, NSU participated in SUB Inter-University Programming Contest 2017 and the top 5 teams from NSU secured the 3, 14, 20, 24 and 58th p...
ACM ICPC Dhaka Regional 2016
ACM ICPC is considered as the Olympics of Programming. One of the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world and regionals ...
IUT 9th ICT Fest 2016 Programming Contest
On 05 November 2016, NSU participated in IUT 8th ICT Fest 2016 Programming Contest and the top 5 teams from NSU secured the 05, 17, 25, 56 and 58th po...
NSU Cybernauts 2016 Programming Contest
On 29 October 2016, NSU participated in NSU Cybernauts 2016 Programming Contest and the top 5 teams from NSU secured the 05, 19, 22, 56 and 58th posit...
ACM ICPC Dhaka Regional 2015
ACM ICPC is considered as the Olympics of Programming. One of the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world and regionals ...
SUB IUPC 2015 Programming Contest
For the first time in the history of Bangladesh, a team from private university became champion in a national programming contest. Congratulation to a...