Here is an interesting view on the non significance of programming contests http://web.archive.org/web/20071121053436/http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking

Here is an interesting view on the non significance of programming contests http://web.archive.org/web/20071121053436/http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/programming_competitions.html http://web.archive.org/web/20071121053436/http://www.cs.calt... And after leaving college and coming to the Industry, the first thing I learnt is that the kind of programming you are expected to do in an organisation is so different than the style we follow in the colleges or promoted by the coding competitions.