Google Code Jam 2010 - Results

Top Google Programmers in 2010

Welcome all!

Introduction

Google Code Jam is a programming competition that requires the ability to think quickly, compose correctly working algorithms and, of course, program in one of the programming languages.

This post I think will be of interest to the entire Habrasooobschestvo, and not only to Habrausers directly related to programming, for several reasons:

• it is related to Google;
• there is sports excitement, the spirit of competition (and so on in this spirit);
• recognition among their own kind.

What was needed was for victory

To win, you just had to go through several online selections and as a result of passing to arrive in Dublin for an offline round. In the offline round, you had to complete 6 tasks faster than all the others (for example, in the final of 2008 there were 5 tasks, and in the final of 2009 it was already 6), with the limitation being 4 hours. Each task has two levels of difficulty (the difference in the amount of incoming data), so you can try to perform a simple level any number of times, and only 1 attempt is given to a difficult level.

Four winners

Do not think that there were only 4 winners, all who got to the offline round are already winners!
But still, someone was the first, and so look at the


full list screenshot to see here .
You can congratulate the representatives of Russia who took 1st and 3rd places, as well as a programmer from the Netherlands who took 2nd place.

Attentive readers may have noticed that there are four participants on the screen, and so the winner is Google Code Jam 2008 and Google Code Jam 2009 - ACRush from China. Just look at the number of attempts to complete the 6th task on a simple difficulty level and all this in the last 10 minutes (I didn’t give up until the last, it’s understandable, if completed, he would be in 2nd place).

Total

One cannot but rejoice that in the top 20 of the best programmers in the world (sorry that it is so global) there are Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Belarusians.
It is interesting why Gennady Korotkevich did not take part in the offline round, who went to the finals under the 5th number, but we hope that he still has everything ahead.

Tell me where to place it better, in Google or in Sports Programming?