How to Win Coding Competitions: Secrets of Champions

Want to be the programmer hot tech companies are looking for? Take your programming skills to the next level and prove your excellence by learning how to succeed in programming competitions. Besides improving your knowledge of algorithms and programming languages, you’ll gain unique experience in problem solving, thinking outside the box and meeting tough deadlines – all essential for boosting your value as a programmer and securing a coveted job in Silicon Valley (should you want one). This computer science course is an introduction to competitive programming developed by ITMO University, the leading expert in IT and the only 7-time world champion of the Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC), the world's most prestigious programming contest. You will learn all you need to know about the variety of programming competitions that exist, as well as basic algorithms and data structures necessary to succeed in the most popular of them.