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Google Code Jam Registration Opens Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-and-brightest dept.

Bamfarooni writes "Registration for Google Code Jam 2006 opens today. The event consists of 3 online rounds (September 5-6, September 14 and September 19,) in which participants compete to solve three coding problems faster and more accurately than their competitors. If you've got what it takes, and more of it than anyone else, then you can take home up to $10k for your code-fu."

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  1. Can we enter a bot? by Cybert4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That does the programming? In a few years, a bot will clean up this type of thing much like a forklift cleans up at a weightlifting competition.

  2. Re:Perl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They did it that way to make it fair for the other languages. Otherwise, us Perl guys would dominate the contest.

  3. vb.net? by marko_ramius · · Score: 2, Funny
    The Google Code Jam 2006 allows coders to utilize Java, C++, C#, VB.NET or Python* as a competition programming language.
    Can vb.net even be considered a language?
  4. Re:Perl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because they want it to take three hours, not half an hour, and they want a result that their Java/C++ monkeys can understand.

  5. Re:Perl? by Millenniumman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they want to be able to read the code you've written, or perhaps they don't want their entire search engine rewritten on one line.

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