Trivandrum: MobME Wireless has announced an online contest CodeJAM to find the smartest computer hacker from Kerala’s college campuses. The contest is open to all college students who have a passion for programming puzzles regardless of their degree or educational merit. A grand prize of Rs 1 lakh awaits the winner. Now, this doesn’t get bigger and better than this.
This talent contest will be launched on 16th June and will be hosted at codejam.mobme.in. This is a specially crafted web portal which will have programming puzzles for the contestants for a consecutive 14 days at 11 p.m. each night. Participants have the flexibility to code in five different computer languages: C, PHP, Python, Ruby or Clojure. Three best programmers will be selected each day and the best one among them will be given a cash prize of Rs.1,000 each.
Every day contest will be of the same difficulty level. With the three contestants selected each day, 42 will go in for the grand finale to be held on the 15th day of commencement. This will be a LIVE coding contest which will be conducted at the Kochi office of Mobme. The winner would walk away with a grand prize of Rs.1 Lakh.
This talent contest will be launched on 16th June and will be hosted at codejam.mobme.in. This is a specially crafted web portal which will have programming puzzles for the contestants for a consecutive 14 days at 11 p.m. each night. Participants have the flexibility to code in five different computer languages: C, PHP, Python, Ruby or Clojure. Three best programmers will be selected each day and the best one among them will be given a cash prize of Rs.1,000 each.
Every day contest will be of the same difficulty level. With the three contestants selected each day, 42 will go in for the grand finale to be held on the 15th day of commencement. This will be a LIVE coding contest which will be conducted at the Kochi office of Mobme. The winner would walk away with a grand prize of Rs.1 Lakh.
“Since we are also planning to absorb the winning contestants into our company, it is preferable that final year students take part in the contest. It is our engineering team who will design the puzzles for them. They will also be the one to choose the best programmer based on the accuracy and language wise best presentation ,” said Renju John, Business Consultant at Mobme.
MobME Wireless is a mobile media & entertainment company focused on value-added services for mobile phone users and carrier-grade solutions for mobile network operators. It is one of India’s fastest growing telecom value added services company is an ISO 9001:2008 company and the only technology company to have won the Nasscom Innovation Award twice.
Students interested to participate in this unique contest may watch for the daily question that will be posted on 16th June at www.codejam.mobme.in. For more details on the contest, please contact Renju John at 88917 32839 or email: renju@mobme.in.
Students interested to participate in this unique contest may watch for the daily question that will be posted on 16th June at www.codejam.mobme.in. For more details on the contest, please contact Renju John at 88917 32839 or email: renju@mobme.in.
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