{"id":15604,"date":"2015-09-26T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15604"},"modified":"2015-09-26T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T19:18:44","slug":"the-jocks-of-computer-code-do-it-for-the-job-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15604","title":{"rendered":"The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Hacker Cup goes much the same way as other sport-coding contests: five puzzles to finish in any order over three hours. Keep the programming as efficient as possible. The cleanest, most accurate code in the fastest time takes first place. A common type of problem might ask for the shortest route between San Francisco and Los Angeles given a number of constraints. Or perhaps the problem is about how to tile a floor in a specific pattern. <strong>The questions typically revolve around a well-known algorithm or mathematical structure with a fresh twist.<\/strong> Elite sport coders must figure out the underlying logic quickly and then trust their abilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2015-09-25\/the-jocks-of-computer-code-do-it-for-the-job-offers\">The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hacker Cup goes much the same way as other sport-coding contests: five puzzles to finish in any order over three hours. Keep the programming as efficient as possible. The cleanest, most accurate code in the fastest time takes first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[670,180],"class_list":["post-15604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-algorithms","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}