Thinking about getting good at competitive programming, especially on a platform like CodeChef? It can seem like ...

Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Course Description This course is part three of a specialization on algorithms and data structures. It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and ...

Competitive programming is a specific skill set similar to many other skill sets, and it is incorrect to assume that being an expert in it would automatically result in being an expert in other ...

COMP_SCI 396, 496: Advanced Algorithm Design through the Lens of Competitive Programming VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites CS 336 or Permission of Instructor Description This is an ...

Competitive programming is similar to quiz contests. Here a team or individual is given a number of mathematical and logical problems to solve using any programming language allowed by the host.

Thousands of three-person teams compete by solving anywhere from eight to 12 algorithm problems of varying difficulty. Students in the programming contest club gain experience in all fields of ...

Shipra Agrawal, Zizhuo Wang, Yinyu Ye, A Dynamic Near-Optimal Algorithm for Online Linear Programming, Operations Research, Vol. 62, No. 4 (July-August 2014), pp. 876-890 ...

Is it possible to be an awesome web developer without doing competitive programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steven Grimm.

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold Google’s Petr Mitrichev is the all-time champion of competitive programming, a little-known sport where tech giants scout for talent.