And the structure of Google code jam seems eerily familiar to top-coder and all other coding contests that are/have been out there.<br><br clear="all">-Billy<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/14 Peter Karunyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com">pkarunyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

The structure of the contest seems eerily familiar to Google code jam:<br><br>&quot;<br>...Input<br><br>The first line of the input file consists of a single number T, the number of test cases...<br>&quot;<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

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On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmwagiru@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwagiru@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">FYI,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 21px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This isn’t a <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/06/30/hackathons/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(30, 89, 142); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hackathon</a>, where devs and designers collaborate in teams to build one-off consumer apps; and it’s not one of Facebook’s <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/devgarage/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(30, 89, 142); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Developer Garages</a>, which focus on using the Facebook Platform. The hackers in this room are solely concentrating on finding solutions to elaborate and complicated computer science questions.</font></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 21px;">For those interested in solving </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px;">difficult algorithmic coding challenges, here&#39;s a link to the winner&#39;s blog <a href="http://goo.gl/ey0wl" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/ey0wl</a></span></span></div>



<div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px;">./bernard</span></span></div>



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