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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. beh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    game programming is where the action is
    Then why do I always have rendering operations rather than second dates in my pipeline?
  2. True "Top" Coders Dominate the "Bottom" Coders by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny

    Top Coder: "What? This isn't done yet?"

    Bottom Coder: "No, your Code Mistressness!"

    Top Coder: "You pathetic little worm! Get back in there and code until your hands bleed!"

    Bottom Coder: "Right away your worshipfulness!"

    Expect to see more ads for "Dominatrix" pop up in Silicon Valley...

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  3. Re:Language of Choice by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny
    TopCoder cofirms it: functional programming is dieing. You don't need to be Eliza to predict functional programming's future: functional programming is dieing. Scheme is the most endangered of them all, having suffocated under a deluge of ()s. It was auctioned off to gnu/emacs, anoter charnel house, with an equally precarious future. Induction proves that the downward spiral will continue until termination.

    Fact: functional programming is dead.

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  4. Re:programming 3D rendering engine by RabidOverYou · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would rather have majored in Glass Chewing than Linear Algebra. Numerical Analysis was bad, but Linear Algebra ... ooh I get the shakes.

  5. Why am I not surprised ... by 1in10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, someone who won top coder is saying it's a good indication of real world ability.

    In other news, Microsoft says Windows is the most reliable, and George Bush says America is the best.

  6. Translation... by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other words he's smart enough to know even he can't get a job programming, and so it's a waste of his time to try.

    A friend of mine hired two AMERICAN programmers for 6$/hr last week. I told him he could get them for $4/hr in India, but he doesn't like remote workers.

    The party is over. Move along.

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  7. Re:how about encryption? by plierhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hah, encryption, I spit in your face !

    Payroll processing is where the action is. COBOL rocks! And you'll score loadsa chicks.

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  8. Re:how about encryption? by grazzy · · Score: 2, Funny

    and not just that! you have a raise every month!