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TopCoder, Math, and Game Programming

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the racking-his-brain dept.

reiners writes "DevX.com has an interesting interview with David Arthur (dgarthur), the 2003 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge winner. Arthur discusses many interesting topics: the similarities between TopCoder problems and math problems, why TopCoder performance is positively correlated with 'real-life' programming performance, and why game programming is where the action is."

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  1. Re:Language of Choice by BJH · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, I don't know... he never mentioned that he's been exposed to anything else, just C++ and Java. Not much of a choice, if you ask me.