Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Code Jam Winner Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the very-clever dept.

Wild-eyed Visionary writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, beat out more than 5,000 coders to win $10,000 in Google's second annual Code Jam programming contest. Second place: Christopher Hendrie (Canada), third place: Eugene Vasilchenko (Russia), fourth place: Tomasz Czajka (Poland). Tom Rokicki, of dvips/Radical Eye Software fame, was the oldest finalist at age 40."

4 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Anyone know... by TheIzzy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out www.topcoder.com. They have a list of all the previous problems, and you can even see all the competitors' solutions if you want.

  2. Re:Anyone notice that the winners are... by Izeickl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out Country Ratings

    US comes 13th out of the 16 ranked countries. Funnily enough, for all the outsourcing it gets, India is last.

    --
    Laptop Reviews
  3. my school career belongs to Jimmy Mardell by weetjerm · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy is no stranger to programming. Many a day in middle school, and high school, was spent playing games Jimmy made for the TI-85 and TI-92. Specifically, he programmed Boulderdash, Tetris, Solitare, and many more to the various calculator platforms. A comprehensive list can be found at ticalc.org. Thanks man! Sqrxz was great.

  4. Re:Anyone notice that the winners are... by ponxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    then again, Sweden only has a population of ~9M. If you scale this to the population of the US (300M) then you get 24*300/9=800.

    Admittedly that's still only half as many entrants/population as the US, but the disparity is not as huge as you suggest...

    Ponxx