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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."

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  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. 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.