LOS
ANGELES — An 18-year-old from Belarus won the Google Code Jam Finals on
Friday, beating out 26 coders from all around the world on his first
attempt at the annual programming competition.
Gennady
Korotkevich took $15,000 in cash for his win. No one achieved a perfect
score on any of the excruciatingly difficult word problems, which the
contestants write computer programs to solve.
If you feel like feeling incredibly dull-witted, you can now see them on the Code Jam site.
The
four-hour timed competition took place at Google LAX on Friday
afternoon. Contestants represented the USA, China, Japan, Ukraine,
Poland, Russia, Korea, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Brazil and, of course,
Belarus.
Gennady
Korotkevich turned 18 this year, making him eligible to win Code Jam.
He'd actually participated — and qualified for the finals — last year,
but wasn't old enough to attend.
Nearly
20,000 programmers competed in four online rounds this year; 25
finalists and the previous year's champion qualify. Second Place went to
Evgenii Kapun, Russia; Yuzhou Gu of China took bronze.
Not
in the field this year — any women. But to encourage better
participation in competitive programming in the future, Google debuted
the Code Jam for Women at the 2014 event.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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