Attention, all the developers out there.
TopCoder's 2010 TopCoder open has just been announced with $150, 000 in prizes, and a trip to Las Vegas. If you've not yet heard of TopCoder, rush to their site and you'll know what they're about.
In short, TopCoder is one of the biggest online programming forums around and their community is rich with some of the best developers and algorithmists from across the globe.
For starters, you might want to first sign up on their site and get yourself a handle. We suggest you participate in some SRM's (Single Round Matches), where you'll be given a set of problems in increasing order of difficulty which you have to finish in a fixed amount of time. Your scores will take some time to get updated (after the match), and will depend on the amount of time you spend in programming the solutions. Your programs will be evaluated based on a test 'set' which TopCoder's servers will test your program with. Each one of your programs should output the correct results within 2 seconds, for each of the test case.
Also, keep in mind that TopCoder also runs as a Java applet on your computer, so you might need Java Runtime Environments up and running on your system.
You can code in your preferred language.
We'll leave the rest of the exploration to you. All the best, and do us proud! [below are all the links you'll need to get started!]
The TCO10 six competition tracks:
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