ACM is the Olympics of programming competitions. It's insanely hard to get into the finals, and winning it means your team is packed with geniuses. To prepare

ACM is the Olympics of programming competitions. It's insanely hard to get into the finals, and winning it means your team is packed with geniuses. To prepare for it they generally practice either on UVA online judge (1800 problems) or Topcoder. To see how insanely challenging it is, try to solve even 90 problems out of the first 100: https://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&Itemid=8&category=1 https://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge...