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« on October 27th, 2011, 10:44 AM »
Apparently it's a competition for young(13-17 year) software developers and this is it's second year. Somehow I didn't know about this last year, but I'm going to participate this year since it's my last chance to participate. Grand prize winners get a chance to visit Googleplex.

The competition is task based, tasks related to different fields in software development such as coding, documentation, tutoring etc will be posted of varying difficulty and one can select them on a first come first serve basis. Every completion gets points based on the task's difficulty(1, 2 or 4) and the top 10 gets the grand prize.

I really want to win the grand prize, hopefully I'll get some good points.
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #1 on October 27th, 2011, 10:51 AM »
Nice, hope you do well :)

(It's kind of sad really, I was 14 when Google was founded, there just wasn't the same kind of thing around when I was in the right age group for this sort of thing)
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #2 on October 27th, 2011, 02:24 PM »
Good luck!

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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #3 on October 27th, 2011, 06:57 PM »
I was 6 :P

Good luck Dragooon! Keep us up to date on this! ;)
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« Reply #4 on October 27th, 2011, 07:43 PM »
Good luck  :cool:
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #5 on October 28th, 2011, 11:05 AM »
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« Reply #6 on October 31st, 2011, 01:41 PM »
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #7 on November 18th, 2011, 08:04 PM »
So the competition starts this Monday, unluckily this time they only chose one PHP organisation, LimeSurvey. Luckily their CI port had some legal problem and they've chosen to switch to Yii, making a lot of tasks possible :D. Although I had to convince them to add full framework porting tasks to a competition for under 17 year olds.
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #8 on November 18th, 2011, 08:13 PM »
Are you trying to get internship with Google? :P
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #9 on November 18th, 2011, 08:14 PM »
I really want to win as this is the first IT related competition where I can show my true skills :P
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #10 on November 26th, 2011, 09:35 PM »
Not that many people would be interested in it, but :
http://www.google-melange…eaderboard/google/gci2011
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #11 on November 26th, 2011, 09:54 PM »
Good work so far!
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #12 on November 27th, 2011, 09:44 AM »
It's a bit abstract to me with just points, but... looking good?!
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« Reply #13 on December 10th, 2011, 10:10 PM »
Still going strong :D
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Re: Google Code-in
« Reply #14 on December 11th, 2011, 02:11 PM »
Shitiz?
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