Category Archives: Coding Challenge

Update: Last Stop Hacker Tour Coding Challenge

Update! New Prizes!

Top 50 Scores Prize Details:

Uber the mobile on demand private car service liked the coding challenge so much that they wanted to offer $20 in credit to the top 50 scores!

The $20 credit is for new Uber users only and can be used to summon your very own private driver in any of the 18 cities Uber cars roll in like New York, SF, Boston, Denver or LA.

Reminder! First place for the coding challenge is $1,500, $500 to 2nd Place and $200 to 3rd Place.  The 4th through 6th winners will receive Romo, the smartphone robot from Romotive.

Coding Challenge Update:

To make the challenge as fair and as fun as possible, Hacker Rank made some changes to the format of the coding challenge.

Hacker Rank has added a level to the Tron challenge. Your final score will be a combination of your level 1 & 2 scores.

The official scoring guidelines can be found at this link.
If you have any questions you can ask them directly on the Hacker Rank IRC channel or leave a comment below.

Check out level 2, submit code & see if your in the top 50 at:

www.hackerrank.com/hackertour

The challenge closes Dec. 3rd! 

HackerTour’s Last Stop: HackerRank Coding Challenge

Readyforce has teamed up with HackerRank to put on an inter-collegiate coding challenge that will take place over this upcoming Thanksgiving break.  This coding challenge will mark the end of Hacker Tour 2012 and with huge prizes and multiple schools competing it is sure to end the tour on an awesome note.

What is it ?

This isn’t your Grandad’s coding challenge folks but rather a bot vs bot challenge modeled after the video game Tron.  Students will have unlimited attempts at building the best bot and access to a live leaderboard so they can monitor their status and rank.

When is it

The challenge launches Monday 11/19 just in time for Thanksgiving break
The challenge ends Monday 12/3

Where is it?

Sign up for the challenge here: https://www.hackerrank.com/hackertour

Who is in it?

The challenge is open to all college student hackers but there will be 6 primary competing schools.
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
MIT
University of Texas – Austin
University of Colorado – Boulder

What is up for grabs?

1st place- $1,500
2nd place- $500
3rd place- $200

Places 4th through 6th: Romo smartphone robots by Romotive.

 

The New Romo from Romotive on Vimeo.