The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is a national programming Competition for secondary school students in Canada. Sponsored by the University of Waterloo, the CCC takes place once a year. Stage 1 is a written at high schools and can be written in the Programming language of the students' choice, with only a few, such as Maple (software) and Mathematica, disallowed. There are two levels of problems presented, Junior and Senior. The contestants have three hours to solve five problems for each level. The top 20 (or so) students in the Senior division are invited to University of Waterloo to participate in Stage 2. In Stage 2 students are restricted to languages permitted at the IOI, which currently includes only C (programming language), programming and Pascal (programming language). Th