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Introduction to Competitive Programming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the programming-for-fun-and-profit dept.

chrisjrn writes "Last year, I unexpectedly found myself entered in the Australian Computer Programming Competition, and somehow did well in it. As a result I decided to write a guide as an introduction, for high school-level students (and others, I suppose,) into the world of programming competitively based on my experience, and how to go about successfully competing in competitions." Article looks like a good start, I'm sure Slashdot readers can add many more tidbits of wisdom.

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  1. Big Competitions not Mentioned In TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    - ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/ (Big competition between colleges worldwide - sort of the equivalent of the IOI at the university level).

    - TopCoder: http://www.topcoder.com/tc (weekly matches, yearly competition with large cash prize, also hosts the Google Code Jam (http://google.com/codejam)).