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Sphere Online Judge

• woah 12y ago
  What is this?
  • anewhnaccount 12y ago
    It's for practising infomatics olympiad style programming problems.
• jamesaguilar 12y ago
  Some of these problems can be incredibly difficult. We used to use these to practice for the ICPC.
• morazow 12y ago
  Even though Spoj is great, nowadays contest programming people use some other online judges. http://codeforces.com/ http://codeforces.com/ and http://www.codechef.com/ http://www.codechef.com/ are mostly used platforms.
• lelf 12y ago
  The cool things on spoj: + the list programming languages you can use (brainfuck and whitespace are there, — if you're too lazy to check) + golfing problems like http://www.spoj.com/ranks/NOP/ http://www.spoj.com/ranks/NOP/, you need to minimize your program length And the one big problem is that they haven't been bothering to update their compilers for a long time
• xxxyy 12y ago
  While we are at it, does anyone have a good explanation for the following fact: o before 1990, the US won every single ACM ICPC contest; o between 1990-2000 it won 4 times; o since 2000 it is Russia+China+Poland total domination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest#Winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Pr...
• RazvanPanda 12y ago
  codewars.com is a good alternative also. Currently it supports Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and they keep adding new languages according to user votes (Haskell and Java were the latest).