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This sounds like heaps of fun - does anyone know if there equivalent competitions (even online challenges) for non-students? I don't work in a programming fiel

• justlearn 12y ago
  TopCoder and CodeForces have competitions roughly every week and last 2 hrs long. You can also 'compete' (unranked, but will be timed) in old competitions on CodeForces or browse a huge laundry list of old problems. Most of the top competitors on these sites have either won ACM, USACO, IOI,etc. but there are lot of beginners and good tutorials.
• conistonwater 12y ago
  Google and Facebook organize their own contests, I believe. And you can find problem repositories with judges that let you submit your solutions online. These are slightly tricky to use for learning, because they wouldn't tell you what went wrong with any particular solution. Some places, like topcoder and codejam, will post analyses of their contests that explain how to solve the problems. Topcoder also has many of these analyses going far back, so you can read them to learn about algorithm design. Links: http://www.topcoder.com/ https://code.google.com/codejam/ https://www.facebook.com/hackercup http://www.spoj.com/ http://uva.onlinejudge.org/