Google Code Jam was an international programming competition hosted and administered by Google. The competition began in 2003. The competition consists of a set of algorithmic problems which must be solved in a fixed amount of time. Competitors may use any programming language and development environment to obtain their solutions. From 2003 to 2007, Google Code Jam was deployed on Topcoder's platform. Since 2008 Google has developed their own dedicated infrastructure for the contest.
Between 2015 and 2018, Google also ran Distributed Code Jam, with the focus on distributed algorithms. This was run in parallel with the regular Code Jam, with its own qualification and final round, for a top prize of $10,000, but was only open for people who qualified to Round 2 of Code Jam (up to 3,000 people).
Several Google Code Jam problems have led to academic research.
On February 22, 2023, Google announced that Code Jam was to be discontinued alongside their other programming competitions, Hash Code and Kick Start. A series of four "farewell rounds" took place on April 15, 2023 from 14:00 until 18:00 UTC, with all rounds taking place at the same time. Login functionality for Google's programming competitions was disabled on June 1, 2023, followed by the shut down of the competitions' hosting platform exactly one month later, on July 1, 2023. A permanent archive of all Code Jam, Hash Code and Kick Start problems is available for download on GitHub.
Past winners Google Code Jam Tournament Finals locationRegistrants Qual Advancers 1st place 2nd place 3rd place2022Online Gennady Korotkevich Jiang Lingyu Kevin Sun2021Online Xiuhan Wang Shogo Murai Scott Wu 2020 Online Gennady Korotkevich Kevin Sun Andrew He 2019 San Francisco, United States Gennady Korotkevich Makoto Soejima Andrew He 2018 Toronto, Canada Gennady Korotkevich Kamil Debowski Makoto Soejima 2017 Dublin, Ireland Gennady Korotkevich Konstantin Semenov Vladislav Epifanov 2016 New York City, United States Gennady Korotkevich Kevin Atienza Egor Kulikov 2015 Seattle, United States Gennady Korotkevich Makoto Soejima Bruce Merry 2014 Los Angeles, United States Gennady Korotkevich Evgeny Kapun Yuzhou Gu 2013 London, United Kingdom Ivan Metelsky Vasil Bileckiy Vladislav Isenbaev 2012 New York City, United States Jakub Pachocki Neal Wu Michal Forišek 2011 Tokyo, Japan Makoto Soejima Ivan Metelsky Jakub Pachocki 2010 Dublin, Ireland Egor Kulikov Erik-Jan Krijgsman Sergey Kopeliovich 2009 Mountain View, United States Tiancheng Lou Zichao Qi Yoichi Iwata 2008 Mountain View, United States Tiancheng Lou Zeyuan Zhu Bruce Merry 2006 New York City, United States ? Petr Mitrichev Ying Wang Andrey Stankevich 2005 Mountain View, United States ? Erik-Jan Krijgsman Petr Mitrichev 2004 Mountain View, United States ? Sergio Sancho Po-Ru Loh Reid Barton 2003 Mountain View, United States ? Jimmy Mårdell Christopher Hendrie Eugene Vasilchenko
Distributed Code Jam Tournament Finals location Competitors 1st place 2nd place 3rd place 2018 Toronto, Canada ? Mateusz Radecki Kevin Atienza 2017 Dublin, Ireland Andrew He Evgeny Kapun Erik-Jan Krijgsman 2016 New York City, New York, United States Bruce Merry Yuzhou Gu Filip Hlasek 2015 Seattle, Washington, United States Bruce Merry Marcin Smulewicz Ting Wei Chen
Results by country Country 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Belarus9 1 0 China 3 4 1 Russia 2 2 7 Poland 2 1 1 Japan 1 3 2 Argentina 1 0 0 Sweden 1 0 0 USA 0 2 4 Canada 0 2 1 Netherlands 0 2 0 Philippines 0 1 0 Ukraine 0 1 0 South Africa 0 0 2 Slovakia 0 0 1
See also Google Code Online judge Topcoder Open
References
https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/7214486/scoreboard https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2437491/scoreboard?c=2437491
External links Google – Code Jam