I am also not a "programmer". My line of work takes me more into the data analysis side. I have always been big into problem solving and logic puzzles. Programming contests is somewhat of a natural extension of that.
The goal of things like Topcoder, SPOJ, Codeforces, Code Jam, etc, is to be able to break a problem down into methods so that it's simple and solved before even writing code. That's why so many different languages are possible. The key is the problem solving. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/d2261196-a3b6-44f6-a0d4-1c3252a5f01f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
