On 21/01/12 10:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 1/21/12 3:56 PM, Chad J wrote:
I don't think American colleges teach Computer Science/Engineering very
well at all.
Wonder why. USA does have the best programmers in the world though.
Depends on what you mean by the best. Most successful, yes.
However, the East always wins the programming competitions :-)
Last year's Google Code Jam world finals:
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/scoreboard?c=1327485
Top 25 breakdown
Russia: 10
China: 7
Japan: 2
Poland: 2
USA: 1
UK: 1
Belarus: 1
Slovakia: 1
Seems to be like that every year. Same happens at the ICPC.
