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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. Recruiting by Heikell · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is Google's way of recruiting the debuggers to sort out the problems with their programs.

  2. As with most slashdot questions... by LordEd · · Score: 3, Informative

    perhaps you should ask google first? Terms and conditions here

    1. Re:As with most slashdot questions... by Morkano · · Score: 3, Informative
      This would seem to be the relevant passage:
      (f) licenses to TopCoder and Google rights to all information submitted during the tournament (including rights to source code and other executables)
      --
      Victory or awesome!
  3. 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.

  4. False Advertisment? by Awod · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or at least poorly written. Want a chance at $165,000? Here's how: Google Code Jam 2006. This competition is a chance for you to use your skills and compete against top programmers from all over the world. Thats on the registration page. On the main page it's slightly different, first prize 10k, 2-10 5k and so on until it all adds up to the suggested 165k. True, it all adds up, but if you wanted to enter and were given a link only to the registration page it can be quite misleading.

  5. Would be nice... by julesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... if they included some previous questions with their previous results. That way, you could know what these people had done in order to win the prizes they won. Would be much more interesting than a table with apparently meaningless numbers in it.

    1. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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