Code Jammers, With 2011 upon us and the next Code Jam only a few months away<http://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html>, it seems like a good time to do a few site updates that we've had in the works.
This update has a focus on educational content: our old "Practice and Learn<http://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html>" page was a big list of past contests, and we've added some advice for new contestants, as well as a list of good introductory problems. We've also added a problem-preparation guide<http://code.google.com/codejam/problem-preparation.html> to the site. It's aimed partly at people who want to know how we get problems ready for Code Jam (and includes the harrowing tale of Ninjutsu<http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=801485#s=p4>), and mostly at people who want to run a contest of their own. As a new ACM coach I really could have used something like this guide when I ran my first tryout. I'm sure there's no small number of problem authors and contest admins on this list, so we'd love to hear what you'd have to say, either in this thread, to my personal email, or at code...@google.com. Cheers! Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
