Posted by the Coding Competitions group
After 20 years, Google’s Coding Competitions come to an in depth with a ultimate spherical.
Bear in mind 2003? Earlier than Chrome, Google Calendar, Android, and YouTube? Once we rigorously cleaned up our saved emails as a result of GMail and its gigabyte of storage hadn’t arrived? 20 years in the past – Google launched a world coding competitors referred to as Code Jam, which challenged programmers of all ranges to check and hone their expertise by racing to resolve algorithmic issues.
From there, our coding competitors lineup continued to develop. Kick Begin started as a contest for latest graduates in China and shortly unfold all over the world. Hash Code, Google’s first team-based problem, began in Europe. And a first-in-class Distributed Code Jam requested individuals to construct options that might scale when run on a number of machines.
All through our coding competitions’ 20-year historical past, you have generated billions of strains of code throughout hundreds of thousands of submissions. You’ve got gone by way of a whole lot of rounds for 1000’s of issues and put in hundreds of thousands of hours of code execution and testing. Over 1,000,000 of you from virtually each nation worldwide have participated — from skilled programmers to college students and everybody in between. And now, simply as we invited you to register for our very first spherical in 2003, we introduced competitions to an finish by inviting our neighborhood to our ultimate occasion.
On Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 2 p.m. UTC we hosted 4 simultaneous on-line rounds of competitors at various ranges of problem. Individuals loved 4 hours of competitors as a part of our Farewell Rounds. You’ll strive your hand on these issues units utilizing follow mode on our website till June 1.
Downside knowledge (statements, analyses, inputs, outputs, particular judging code when relevant, and spherical overview texts) is now additionally saved in a GitHub repository referred to as coding-competitions-archive. This repository will stay up even after this website is turned down. You may both clone the info utilizing git, or you’ll be able to browse the issues instantly within the GitHub web site. Moreover, PDF variations of the statements and accessible analyses are offered for ease of viewing.
To these who joined us at any a part of this twenty yr historical past: It’s been an honor to be taught, succeed, fail, and have enjoyable coding with you. Via the conceptual artwork, the slides, the gophers, and the absurd quantity of pancakes, we did it – and we did it collectively. Thanks for occurring this journey with us.