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Public area => The Pub => Off-topic => Discussion démarrée par: Dragooon le 27 Octobre 2011 à 10:44

Titre: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 27 Octobre 2011 à 10:44
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.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 27 Octobre 2011 à 10:51
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)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 27 Octobre 2011 à 14:24
Good luck!

I was 22 when Google was born. Bunch of kids :p
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 27 Octobre 2011 à 18:57
I was 6 :P

Good luck Dragooon! Keep us up to date on this! ;)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: TE le 27 Octobre 2011 à 19:43
Good luck  :cool:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Antes le 28 Octobre 2011 à 11:05
Good luck :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: billy2 le 31 Octobre 2011 à 13:41
 :cool:
Best of luck
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 18 Novembre 2011 à 20:04
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.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dismal Shadow le 18 Novembre 2011 à 20:13
Are you trying to get internship with Google? :P
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 18 Novembre 2011 à 20:14
I really want to win as this is the first IT related competition where I can show my true skills :P
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 26 Novembre 2011 à 21:35
Not that many people would be interested in it, but :
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/leaderboard/google/gci2011
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 26 Novembre 2011 à 21:54
Good work so far!
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 27 Novembre 2011 à 09:44
It's a bit abstract to me with just points, but... looking good?!
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 10 Décembre 2011 à 22:10
Still going strong :D
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dismal Shadow le 11 Décembre 2011 à 14:11
Shitiz?
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 11 Décembre 2011 à 14:59
Yeah.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 18 Décembre 2011 à 23:07
I see you're still first by far! Hopefully remains this way :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 27 Janvier 2012 à 12:22
So, Dragooon! Google Code-In is complete, and you're still first (by a large margin!).
Does this mean you won the competition? :D
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 27 Janvier 2012 à 12:33
Oh hell yeah! I should be receiving the grand prize along with confirmation by the end of Feb or within the first week of March.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 27 Janvier 2012 à 12:39
Congratulations are in order, then!! :)

Why didn't you mention it before?
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 27 Janvier 2012 à 12:42
Citation de Nao le 27 Janvier 2012 à 12:39
Congratulations are in order, then!! :)

Why didn't you mention it before?
Forgot, sorry. Been buried in a lot of stuff lately. Haven't been online much.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 27 Janvier 2012 à 14:09
Wow!!! Congrats!!! :D
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: billy2 le 27 Janvier 2012 à 15:21
Yaayy
 :cool:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Hey Arnold! le 27 Janvier 2012 à 17:56
Awesome!  :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 27 Janvier 2012 à 18:20
Congrats :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dr. Deejay le 27 Janvier 2012 à 18:32
Yeah congrats :D
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 27 Janvier 2012 à 18:37
I should add it's well deserved -- you can glance at his work when following links, there are some impressive things. Including some assembler code! :lol:
(My little finger is telling me that Google Code-In becomes much easier to handle by using the Google search engine, just like any sane person would do... :P)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 27 Janvier 2012 à 18:51
Citation de Nao le 27 Janvier 2012 à 18:37
I should add it's well deserved -- you can glance at his work when following links, there are some impressive things. Including some assembler code! :lol:
(My little finger is telling me that Google Code-In becomes much easier to handle by using the Google search engine, just like any sane person would do... :P)
Thanks, and not really :p.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: TE le 28 Janvier 2012 à 07:57
Congrats  :cool:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Alanthar le 28 Janvier 2012 à 10:41
Contratulations. :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 31 Mars 2012 à 13:51
Just as a continuation, I've officially won the competition and am going for the trip on June 12th with my whole family(My parents and sister), we managed to extend the 4 day trip to a full 18 day trip of US where we'll be visting San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, ofcourse we're paying the extra :P.
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: spoogs le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:02
congrats :bravo: :bravo: :bravo: :bravo:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:10
And Congrats again :)

Any web page where we can see the announcement?
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:12
Nice :)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dr. Deejay le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:12
Congrats :D
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Dragooon le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:12
Thanks :)

It's a post on Google's official opensource blog
http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2012/02/google-code-in-2011-grand-prize-winners.html
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:13
Wow!! Congrats!! :yahoo: :cool: :cool:

Me in the middle of the crowd asking for Dragooon's autographs:
Citation
"Hey, he's a friend of mine!! I know him! He helped me with a tooltip!!"
:lol:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:14
Give it 5 years and Dragooon will be one of the rockstar programmers who will be mobbed when he gets off a plane...
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 31 Mars 2012 à 14:39
And then maybe we'll have to kindly ask him to get us a Google internship :P
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: billy2 le 31 Mars 2012 à 15:07
Well done Dragooon :cool:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 31 Mars 2012 à 15:46
Uhm, there seems to be a problem with img tags.. I tried to add this image:
http://[url][url][url][url][url][url]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/06/article-0-0B0E2298000005DC-67_634x396.jpg[/url][/url][/url][/url][/url][/url]

Probably it's hotlink-protected, so Wedge can't reach the image and my tags became:
(img)http://(url)http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/06/article-0-0B0E2298000005DC-67_634x396.jpg(/url)(/img)

(I'm using the rounded parentheses to avoid tags being processed)

EDIT: oops, there seems to be a problem with links too! Wedge automatically added tags when I posted the above url (without any tag):
http : / / i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/06/article-0-0B0E2298000005DC-67_634x396 DOT jpg
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Arantor le 31 Mars 2012 à 15:57
Yes, we knew about that, it's a bug in the preparser and is even already in Bug Reports...
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 31 Mars 2012 à 16:53
At least twice even ;)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 31 Mars 2012 à 17:19
Repetita iuvant :blush:
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: Nao le 31 Mars 2012 à 17:24
At least twice even ;)
Titre: Re: Google Code-in
Posté par: MultiformeIngegno le 31 Mars 2012 à 17:48
Pwned :lol: