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by zach
5594 days ago
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ITA has some clever challenges (including an archive of past puzzles): 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. |
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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/ , which is cool if you're into Go (the board game, not the lang).