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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."

2 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Have to use their IDE! by coshx · · Score: 4, Informative

    All they say is that you cannot use TopCoder plugins or modify the applet, but do not consider it cheating to copy the problem statement into another IDE, do your development there, and copy the code back. In fact, a good handwritten (e.g. you wrote it yourself and did not get it from a TC plugin) regular expression or two should suffice to parse the problem statement into class/method stubs and test cases. You tie running that regular expression to a macro and you're all set.

  2. Re:Would be nice... by Doggan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a link to a previous year's problem with a C++ solution. An interesting problem.