Does competitive programming really help in improving your knowledge and skillset as a developer? This question was originally answered on Quora by Ana Echavarria.

Do you want to improve your coding abilities, your knowledge of algorithms and data structures and your problem solving skills? Come do Competitive Programming at Princeton! We welcome both beginners ...

Contrary to popular belief, programmers have a life, though mostly bound to their computers. One of the many incentives that make it so is programming competitions.

2025 ICPC North America Championship Looking ahead to NAC, the “MREEOWWW” team has established a friendly internal competition: the member with the lowest rating is treating the group to dinner. Chen ...

Annually, more than 10,000 teams compete in global and regional contests. Problems have varying degrees of difficulty and incorporate five programming languages — C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Python 3.

A Dalhousie competitive programming team bested 24 other teams to win last month’s Atlantic Canadian Programming Competition. The team — called Dal Esperanza — only had two programmers to most other ...

Enduring competitive pressure not only changes young people's behavior, but also their personality: they become less ...