Google Announces Code Jam 2012 Registration Is Now Open

Zach Walton Expert Author Published: 2012-03-16 WebProNews RSS Feed

Makoto Soejima took home the first place prize last year. He had to get through various challenges and hardships such as building a house for kittens and helping Goro of Mortal Kombat fame through anger management. You may be wondering what any of these have to do with coding? Just check out the problem from the aforementioned Goro scenario and watch as your brain shuts down over what it just processed.

Participants for the Code Jam will come from all over the world to prove their merit against the sure to be daunting challenges. Thankfully, participants can use whatever programming language they're most familiar with to tackle the algorithms.

The qualification rounds will take place on April 13, so you just have a little under a month to get ready. Those who pass this round will compete in three more online rounds over the next few months. The top 25 contestants will be flown to New York City on July 25 to compete in the final round that will net the winner $10,000.

While I'm in no way confident in my ability to solve these problems, let alone basic algorithms, you can register to compete in the Code Jam now. If you're a little rusty, the Google blog post provides competitors with the four final problems from last year.