TopCoder, Math, and Game Programming

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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beh

[Anonymous Coward]

game programming is where the action is

Then why do I always have rendering operations rather than second dates in my pipeline?

Re:Language of Choice

[larry bagina]

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.

Why am I not surprised ...

[1in10]

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.