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ITA has some clever challenges (including an archive of past puzzles): http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzles.html http://www.itasoftwar
by 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 agoI'd love to see something like the ICFP contest (in its better years), made shorter somehow. The 2006 one was especially awesome.
- zbanks 16y agoI'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).