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who else has done awesome challenges? Greplin had a cool one...seatgeek...who else?

amitklein 16y ago
Programming Competition Sites: TopCoder, CodeChef, Project Euler For Jobs: Quora (http://www.quora.com/challenges http://www.quora.com/challenges), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php)
- duck 16y ago
  Another fun one is: http://www.coderloop.com/ http://www.coderloop.com/
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teraflop 16y ago
Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges
zach 16y ago
ITA has some clever challenges (including an archive of past puzzles): http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzles.html http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzle... But then that's the thing, a lot of places have these kind of programming challenge puzzles. What's the closest to a Putnam for programming challenges? I know Facebook is trying to position their Hacker Cup this way, but it had a rough start that makes you wonder if it's the best thing for Facebook to run on its own. It seems like there's an opportunity for a prominent and widely-sponsored event run by a third party. I presume the sponsors would love a window of exclusivity to see the best results from recruitable competitors. Even without the obvious recruiting benefits, it would at least capture the imaginations of aspiring programmers worldwide.
- abecedarius 16y ago
  I'd love to see something like the ICFP contest (in its better years), made shorter somehow. The 2006 one was especially awesome.
- zbanks 16y ago
  I've also spent some time on http://hacker.org http://hacker.org Rather than focus on a specific "answer," you instead write algorithms to solve various flash games based on NP-complete/hard problems. Its interesting since there's always ways to improve. You can start out with a brute-force solver, but as the levels scale your program won't. They also recently added a "challenges" section, which is more about specific coding tasks. Those are also pretty fun & scale well. And yes, despite the domain name & poor design, it's actually a pretty serious site. The same guy also did http://goproblems.com/ http://goproblems.com/ , which is cool if you're into Go (the board game, not the lang).

Programming Competition Sites: TopCoder, CodeChef, Project Euler For Jobs: Quora (http://www.quora.com/challenges http://www.quora.com/challenges), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php)

duck 16y ago
Another fun one is: http://www.coderloop.com/ http://www.coderloop.com/
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teraflop 16y ago

Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges

zach 16y ago

ITA has some clever challenges (including an archive of past puzzles): http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzles.html http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzle... But then that's the thing, a lot of places have these kind of programming challenge puzzles. What's the closest to a Putnam for programming challenges? I know Facebook is trying to position their Hacker Cup this way, but it had a rough start that makes you wonder if it's the best thing for Facebook to run on its own. It seems like there's an opportunity for a prominent and widely-sponsored event run by a third party. I presume the sponsors would love a window of exclusivity to see the best results from recruitable competitors. Even without the obvious recruiting benefits, it would at least capture the imaginations of aspiring programmers worldwide.

abecedarius 16y ago
I'd love to see something like the ICFP contest (in its better years), made shorter somehow. The 2006 one was especially awesome.
zbanks 16y ago
I've also spent some time on http://hacker.org http://hacker.org Rather than focus on a specific "answer," you instead write algorithms to solve various flash games based on NP-complete/hard problems. Its interesting since there's always ways to improve. You can start out with a brute-force solver, but as the levels scale your program won't. They also recently added a "challenges" section, which is more about specific coding tasks. Those are also pretty fun & scale well. And yes, despite the domain name & poor design, it's actually a pretty serious site. The same guy also did http://goproblems.com/ http://goproblems.com/ , which is cool if you're into Go (the board game, not the lang).