Hi guys Cant we organize such competitions amongst skunkers before we go international Murigi Muraya wrote:
Jiazhi Wu: Programming's Crack Competitor
This coding champ won 39 out of 45 TopCoder programming matches in two years.
Eric Lai
* July 9, 2007* (Computerworld) <http://www.computerworld.com/>
What kind of trophies do they give to programming champions? Jiazhi Wu would know. As an undergrad at Zhejiang University in China, Wu won a record 39 out of 45 programming contests held by TopCoder Inc., a Glastonbury, Conn.-based software development and recruiting firm. Winning those global contests which generate actual software that TopCoder turns around and sells to its corporate customers also won Wu a cool $155,000.
Jiazhi writes code very fast. In most cases, his code doesnt need much debugging, says Chao Yang, a former classmate of Wus and a fellow competitive coder. Based on my observations, I cannot see any weaknesses in him as a programmer.
Im not good at sports at all, so programming was the most competitive aspect of my life, says Wu, who counts Java, C++ and C# as his favorite languages.
Champion coders tend to burn out early or move on to real jobs. Thats the case with the 26-year-old, who says he has retired from competitive programming and now focuses on his role as vice president of technology for the Chinese subsidiary of TopCoder.
His mission: to serve as chief architect for software components produced in China, as well as attract more burgeoning talent from Chinas deep technical well.
There are a lot of talented Chinese programmers around, but they need a platform to present themselves, he says. TopCoder provides that platform. ....
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They Chinese compete well but cooperation (open cultures / characters) seems to work better in building software / web companies! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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