Our plans for Code Jam
Posted by Bartholomew
"Ruberik" Furrow, Technical Lead
What do you do if you've got a head full of good ideas, and
nothing interesting to do with them? You might need a good dose of
competitive programming. During a programming competition you
contort your brain, trying desperately to figure out that tiny
trick that will let your program run a thousand times faster, or
searching for the elusive mathematical fact that will lead you to
the solution. Then you tell your computer what to do, and watch it
solve that torturous problem faster than you can blink. If
you're like me, you eagerly participate in every coding
competition that comes along.
Since 2003, we have supported the fun and intensity of competitive
programming around the world by offering code jams powered by
TopCoder. Contests like the ACM ICPC, the TopCoder Open and our
TopCoder-powered code jams have formed a great community of
contests and contestants; now we're excited to join that
community in our own right, by producing a Google Code Jam of our
own! There aren't too many details to share yet, but we have
some big plans: there are quite a few super-competitive programmers
here, and we've put them to work preparing challenges for
you.
So start brushing up with
a couple of practice problems — and it's well worth
checking out some old problems from the
and TopCoder too.
We're also excited to hear what you think would make for a
great Google-run programming contest, so send us your
– and get ready for a challenge.
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