Google Code Jam

Are you ready to test your coding skills? Join Google Code Jam, a competition where programmers and students solve complex coding challenges in a limited amount of time. Winners get cash prizes and a trip to a local Google office. Last year, one competitor even went on to intern at Google and helped to create a new version of Google Sky.

We began offering the Google Code Jam in 2003 as a great way for Google to support competitive programming around the world. Those earlier contests were powered by TopCoder, but we have been developing a platform to support coding competitions -- and now we are excited to produce our own Google Code Jam.

The new competition is planned for the end of Summer 2008, and we hope you'll join us and your fellow computer science students in this challenge. If you're interested, sign up for future announcements and updates about the contest at: http://groups.google.com/group/codejam-announce.

If you know someone else who would be interested, feel free to forward this email to them, too.

We're excited about Google Code Jam 2008, and we hope to see you at the finals!

Sincerely,

Google's Code Jam Team