NCSS Challenge 2008
Welcome to the NCSS Challenge 2008
The final day!
It's the last day of the NCSS Challenge 2008. Over the past five weeks, the participants have written literally tens of thousands of Python programs, and I'm sure we'll get a final surge today.
Well done to everyone who has taken part! We're constantly amazed by the effort you have all put in and the quality of your code. And if you're scrambling to solve some final problems today, good luck!
The scoreboard will take us some time to finalise, since we need to chase up some things manually and add or remove some points here and there, so check back later in the week for the final results.
Hi everyone -- at Challenge Central we're busy preparing notes and problems for the next five weeks.
If this is your first time, we hope you enjoy the Challenge, and if you participated last year, welcome back!
We have two divisions this year: ordinary and advanced. If you are new to programming, or new to the Python programming language, we recommend the ordinary stream. If you're already a strong programmer and you know Python, give the advanced stream a try.
There will be questions and notes posted for both streams next Monday (July 28), and you can switch back and forth during the first week, so check out both if you're not sure. And don't worry if the advanced stream looks too easy: it's going to get a whole lot tougher over the next five weeks!