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A younger generation of programmers is paving its way, join the league
Before we proceed any further with this post, it is only fair to apologize for the prolonged delay in putting it up (and for some other posts following this one). So, a big Sorry to you all. There are...
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The festivities of November Challenge
Like a big festival, the build up for the November Challenge 2013, had us all eagerly waiting for it. The contest was starting a day before the ACM-ICPC Asia-Kharagpur Site First Round Online Contest...
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Mercury drops further with November Cook-Off
For a lot of us, the November Cook-Off 2013 was yet another reason to celebrate. And we are pretty sure you’d enjoyed it. While the problems added to the flavors of the month, the competition among the...
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A contest of minimum moves
Winter perhaps is the most beautiful time of the year. It makes the environs alluring, and us, lazy. Thus, the delay in putting up the blog posts for our recent contests. Our November Lunchtime was set...
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The final long challenge of 2013
The December Challenge 2013 was set in close quarters with the onsite ACM ICPC India regionals, which made it a practice ground for everyone participating in the onsite rounds. Users who were visiting...
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The arrival of a new crop of champs
Quick thinking and quicker implementation, they say, are the virtue of great programmers. It also accounts for their success in various coding competitions. Especially, in the shorter format, like our...
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The glimpse of good things to come in 2014
We have been witnessing the imminence of a new crop of programmers through our contests. We recently saw acmonster of Nanjing Foreign Language School, Jiangsu emerging triumphant in the December...
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The year 2014 starts with a bang – January Challenge 2014
Amid the flying sheets of New Year resolutions it was a tad tough to focus entirely on putting up the contest, so, instead of putting those resolution sheets into the recycle bin a week later, we did...
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The big story of a small confusion
Nothing compares to the elation of participating in a short programming contest, as far as the programmers are concerned. While, the long challenge brings opportunities to learn and execute new things,...
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The Republic Day Lunchtime
The day of January Lunchtime 2014 had too much going on for it. It was the 65th Republic Day of India, it was Australia Day down under, and in the world of sports, it was the final of year’s first...
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Five Years of Codetrotting
1st March 2009, five years and a few days from now, we launched CodeChef. It has been a fascinating journey since then. It couldn’t have been anything else! It is our anniversary month. And anniversary...
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The long challenge of the short month
The February Challenge was a special one even before it started, for it concealed our February Cook-Off 2014 during its ten days. The occurrence of two events in the course of one meant twice the fun,...
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Look back at February Cook-Off 2014
Concealed in the widespread span of February Challenge, the Cook-Off has had the stage all lit up for it. There were some requests regarding its rescheduling, but because of our fixed calendar, we were...
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The Lunchtime ahead of the exam season
It was the ninth edition of our Lunchtime programming series. Just before the big examination season here in India. While students were deep into their preparations, we had just wrapped up ours, for...
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The Anniversary Long Challenge 2014
March, we would say is not the happiest time of the year. You can put it on the scorching sun outside, or can blame it on all the closings and examinations approaching. Whatever it is, it does not put...
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Dream debut of Dreamoon4
March was a busy month for us. After the initial packed schedule with the anniversary contests and the long challenge, soon we found ourselves up close with the March Cook-Off 2014. Now, while some...
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The story of a meteoric rise
Our Lunchtime programming series has been a global platform for young programmers to proclaim their advent among the best in the business. Some have already done that in the small span of 10 months of...
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The Big Fat April Challenge 2014
April, let us just say is the most competitive time of the year. The exam season had just ended, and the race to the admission window is on. Everyone is ready with their preparations for plethora of...
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The return of the tourist on a hard turf
Set on the Easter Sunday, our April Cook-Off 2014 already had a festive tone set for it. With all the colorful Easter parties happening all around, we were delirious about our Cook-Off. By no means, it...
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A Chinese Lunch
Welcome to yet another delayed blog post from chefs’ kitchen. We have tried earlier, and we have been trying consistently towards it, but somehow we have not been able to deliver our blog posts on...
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