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The July Cook-Off has ended!

Posted by Harsh on July 25th, 2011 Filed in Contests, Winners View Comments

Hi Guys,

The July 2011 Cook-off has ended. This contest saw an unsolved problem after quite a while, the remaining problems seemed easy with over 150 users who solved 2 problems at least.

This contest was made possible by our problem setter and tester Shilp Gupta and Anton Lunyov respectively. And they did an awesome job. Thank you so much for the fantastic job in putting together this problem set!

Here are the  top 10 best performers of the July 2011 Cook-Off:

01. dzhulgakov
02. laycurse
03. al13n
04. damians
05. volkhin
06. cgy4ever
07. rasifiel
08. EgorK
09. sobols
10. smylic

Take a look at the contest rankings here.

Contest Statistics:

Length of Contest Unique Participants Total Number of Submissions User who have solved at least one problem
2.5 hours 341 1484 279
Country Total Participants
IN 220
Rest of World 121

Congratulations guys! We look forward to seeing all of you participating in the August 2011 Challenge that begins on 1st August, 2011.

Check out the contest problem editorials here.

If there is anything you would like to let us know regarding this contest then do let us know by either commenting below this blog post or by sending in an email to feedback@codechef.com.Cheers,

Harsh Munshaw
(Team CodeChef)

P.S. Winners of the contest will be contacted this week.

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July 2011 Challenge Winners!

Posted by Harsh on July 12th, 2011 Filed in Contests, Winners View Comments

Hi CodeCheffers,

The July Challenge 2011 is over!

The July Contest saw some big names battle it out at the top spots. We saw some last minute changes in Indian Ranking from Ravi Kiran who managed to bag the top spot from India and Tomek Czajka who bagged the Global spot. Overall a good contest, a fair bit of difficulty mixed with some easy problems gave this problem set a good balance.

Before we move on to the next section of the blog post, a special mention of the people who made this contest possible:

David Stolp, Ivan Mistreanu, Ashwin Jain, Ashar Fuadi and Gennady were the problem setters while  Shilp Gupta was the diligent tester of this month’s contest.

Lets look at some Statistics and then move on to see the final winners list.

Contest Statistics:

Length of Contest Unique Participants Total Number of Submissions User who have solved at least one problem
11 days 460 8189 327
Country Total Participants Average Score per User
IN 295 1.08
Rest of World 165 1.89

Winners list for the July 2011 Contest:

India:

01. Pratik Tandel (winner of prize money Rs. 12000)
02. Varun Jalan (winner of prize money Rs. 8000)
03. Prunthaban K
04. Archit Karandikar
05. sharatiitr
06. root5
07. flying_ant
08. mkagenius
09. jayesh02
10. deepangupta91
11. mukulgupta
12. sunny816.iitr
13. Praveen Kumar
14. vamsi_kavala
15. mendax
16. FrostByte
17. pikku
18. Amit Karmakar

Global:

01. Tomasz Czajka (winner of prize money $400)
02. hanshuai (winner of prize money $300)
03. chmel_tolstiy
04. Oleg
05. pperm
06. cgy4ever
07. s.max
08. tanzaku
09. xxjx
10. EgorK

Congratulations to all.

If you haven’t yet checked out the editorials of the problems to this month’s contest please do so here.

We are running a 2.5 hours Cook-Off that is scheduled for 24th July 2011 at 21:30 IST

If there is anything that you would like to let us know then do comment on this blog post or send in an email to feedback@codechef.com

Cheers,
Harsh Munshaw

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Programmer of the Month for July 2011: Gunjan Sharma

Posted by Harsh on July 4th, 2011 Filed in Programmer of the Month View Comments

Welcome to the July Programmer of the Month edition!

This month we have with us Gunjan Sharma who is our Programmer of the Month. Gunjan has been part of CodeChef since November 2009 and is ranked 35th in the long contest and 84th in the short contest format. We hope to see this bright young mind achieve his dreams. On behalf of the CodeChef team, we wish him good luck for the future.  Now let’s see what Gunjan has to tell us about himself.

Name: Gunjan Sharma
Age: 21
Institute: Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Company: Google
User id: shadow

Brief introduction about yourself:

Recently I have finished my bachelors from IIT Roorkee. I got placed in Google. Now I look forward to join Google soon. I have always had interest in Maths and puzzles. And I am quite passionate about programming.

How/When did you start programming?

I started programming only after I came in 2nd year. And it was on the codechef platform that I wrote my first program. The credit goes to my seniors for “how” I started programming.

What do you do when you’re not programming?

I usually watch movies and sitcoms.

What do you like most about CodeChef?

First of all the purpose that it is serving-”Bring out the best of Indian Programmers”. And also I like the codechef’s Interface. Another good thing about codechef is its long contest which gives you enough time to learn and implement new algorithms, and the challenge problems are unique in there own way :)

How many hours a day do you program?

Depends, there is no fixed time but I love coding whenever possible it always feels good to code.

If you could eat dinner with any famous person (past or present), who would it be and what dish would you have?

I would like to go out for dinner with Priyanka Chopra :P and whatever she likes should be good for me :D

What is the secret to being a good programmer?

I think to learn all what u can whenever u get a chance. Also keep participating in any kind of programming competition as u never know what new things u might learn.

What are your plans for the future?

Currently I look forward to join Google and still keep participating in the programming competitions :)

Other than this I would like to say all the very best to the Codechef team and hope that u grow exponentially :)

Cheers!
Team CodeChef

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