DEV Community: Pranav Maddi

Coder Cup $100 problem #5: Packing Spheres

Pranav Maddi — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:52:34 +0000

I want to write code every day, and I've always found solving little challenges fun and satisfying. Coder Cup is an online programming competition designed to help you level up your skills through unique challenges.

This week's problem

What is the length of the shortest pipe, of internal radius 50mm, that can fully contain 21 balls of radii 30mm, 31mm, ..., 50mm?

Check it out and submit your solution to win $100 on codercup.org/p5

$100 Daily programming challenges

Pranav Maddi — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 01:52:34 +0000

I want to write code every day, and I've always found solving little challenges fun and satisfying.

At codercup.org, we're setting up a series of challenges to get people excited about programming and get more interesting ideas into the world.

Check out today's challenge and our past ones! https://www.codercup.org/p4/

A programming competition for people who actually like programming

Pranav Maddi — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:50:54 +0000

I'm organizing a online programming competition that's a bit different. Everything else out there feels unnecessarily intense, very math heavy, or just generally uninspired. Rather, we're encouraging collaboration, focusing on CS / software engineering skills, and building questions around real-world problems.

Right now, we're spending a lot of time designing unique problems and finding sponsors who are looking to reach really smart engineers.

With any luck, we'll spread the love of programming far and wide <3

The real competitions with the 12k in prize money starts Feb 2020, and until then we are sending out practice problems.

What do you think? Try out a couple easy practice problems to register:

https://codercup.org