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Upcoming Coding events and hackathons.

Prachi Bhandari

September 8, 2021

“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but it is fun to program.”

Here is the list of upcoming and currently ongoing coding events…ALL THE BEST!!!!

Why you should participate in upcoming or ongoing Coding events?

1. You can structure your deliberate practice routine around it

2. It will prepare you well for technical interviews

3. You’ll get used to working on a challenging problem

Hackathons:

A Hackathon conjointly referred to as a codefest, is a social coding event that brings pc programmers and alternative interested folks along to boost upon or build a replacement software system program.

The construct of the hackathon, conjointly referred to as a hack day or hack fest, was born out of the open supply community. the primary event labeled a hackathon was the OpenBSD Hackathon in the metropolis, Canada, on June 4, 1999.

Types of hackathons:

Hackathons vary in objectives and themes.

Corporate hackathons organized by companies like Amazon, Corporate hackathons organized by firms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft square measure developed to encourage staff to participate in new development. Language or programming hackathons square measure dedicated to making specific programing language or framework applications such as C++ or web.

Who can participate?

ELIGIBILITY:

The Hackathon is open to:

Individuals who are at least the age of major and citizen of India as of the time of entry
Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”)
All countries/territories, excluding standard exceptions

ONGOING CODING EVENTS:

NAME	END
AWS Graviton Hackathon	1 month left
Theta Hackathon Q3 2021	3 months left
Codegeist 2021	7 days left
IGNITION \| A Global Solana Hackathon	1 month left

source: hackathon

JUDGING CRITERIA:

Eligible Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Administrator (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the administrator or external, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the Administrator.
All expenses or costs associated with the acceptance or use of the prize or any component of the prize are the responsibility of the winner. The prize is awarded “as is” and without any warranty.
Judges are not required to test the Application and may choose to judge based solely on the text description, images and video provided in the Submission.

CodeChef :

Codechef was created as a platform to help programmers make it big in the world of algorithms, computer programming, and programming Contests.

It hosts a programming contest at the start of the month and two smaller programming challenges at the middle and end of the month. Below is the list of upcoming coding events.

HERE IS UPCOMING CODING EVENT,CONTEST TYPES & SCHEDULE:

here are three types of contests that is hosted by codechef:

The Long Challenge
The Cook-Off
The LunchTime

The details of each of these contests and the schedule for application is mentioned below:

	LONG	COOK-OFF	LUNCHTIME
Duration	10 days	2.5 hrs	3 hrs
Schedule	First Friday of every month	Second last Sunday of every month	Last Saturday of every month
Start Time	1500 hrs IST	2130 hrs IST	1930 hrs IST
Submit Problem idea(s)	40 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest
Apply to Test	40 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest
Apply to write Editorials	40 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest	30 days before the start of the contest

source:CodeChef

Eligibility:

Anyone with a knack for programming and access to the Internet.

Judging Criteria:

Teams will be ranked as per the number of problems solved
The qualification round, round 1A and 1B will use score based ranking system.
The pre-elimination, elimination & final round will use ACM styled ranking system.