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Marco's Blog: UCT Algorithm Circle
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Sunday, February 1, 2009. After much grinding away, we had our first class of the UCT Algorithm Circle. To see the kids we have, just check out some of their introductions in this thread. To see what they're capable of. Posted by Marco Gallotta. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Code Jam and Distributed Code Jam 2016 solutions. 8594; MacHeist: Fantastical and more for $10.
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Marco's Blog: Long Overdue Update
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Monday, May 31, 2010. It's been a long 10 months since my last post, so an update is long overdue. So, what have I been up to all this time? On Wednesday, I leave the country for four months. I'm starting a second internship at Google Zurich, working with my previous mentor this time on the Google Calendar backend. I have a vague idea of what I'll be working on there and I must s...While...
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Marco's Blog: May 2010
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Monday, May 31, 2010. It's been a long 10 months since my last post, so an update is long overdue. So, what have I been up to all this time? On Wednesday, I leave the country for four months. I'm starting a second internship at Google Zurich, working with my previous mentor this time on the Google Calendar backend. I have a vague idea of what I'll be working on there and I must s...While...
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Marco's Blog: August 2009
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Sunday, August 2, 2009. Introduction to Programming Using Python. We eventually ended up inviting 46, with the expectation that at least 5 wouldn't pitch. We underestimated their enthusiasm: one fell ill, another had a last minute commitment; everyone else pitched! But it means we did something right, right? We chose to run the whole course in the computer lab so that they could run shor...
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Marco's Blog: October 2008
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Friday, October 31, 2008. Juniors in the South African Computer Olympiad. A concern I have always had with the South African Computer Olympiad (SACO) is the lack of juniors (grades 10 and below) making it through to the third round and eventually the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). A glance at the SACO winner archive. Why do we have this problem? I have some other plans to f...
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Marco's Blog: Introduction to Programming Using Python
http://marco-za.blogspot.com/2009/08/introuduction-to-programming-using.html
Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Sunday, August 2, 2009. Introduction to Programming Using Python. We eventually ended up inviting 46, with the expectation that at least 5 wouldn't pitch. We underestimated their enthusiasm: one fell ill, another had a last minute commitment; everyone else pitched! But it means we did something right, right? We chose to run the whole course in the computer lab so that they could run shor...
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Marco's Blog: August 2008
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Thursday, August 28, 2008. IOI Day 5: Contest, Conference and VIP Dinner. Finally my presentation was underway. The paper I presented, titled "Challenges Running a Computer Olympiad in South Africa" is available here. And my slides here. It went well and timing was spot-on 20 minutes. The questions that followed were most interesting, although I must admit I have forgotten most of th...
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Marco's Blog: Prototype
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Sunday, February 1, 2009. After completing the meat of my background chapter in December, I spent the most part of January working on a prototype for my masters project. So now I get to start showing off all my pretty pictures. :). First of all, I should mention that I am writing an extension for VMD. Then finally, VMD is a very feature-full tool and least of which you can do is rotate t...
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Marco's Blog: December 2008
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Thursday, December 11, 2008. After the painful experience of seeing my masters supervisor resign a few months ago. Things have been turning out rather nicely. A huge advantage of working with my new supervisor is that she has good international collaboration. Last month I met the lead developer (from Illinois) of VMD. This week, Dr Robert Best. Posted by Marco Gallotta. Tumbleweed Rants ...
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Marco's Blog: February 2009
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Programming contest experiences, odds and ends of Google happenings and other random things blogged by Marco Gallotta. Sunday, February 1, 2009. After much grinding away, we had our first class of the UCT Algorithm Circle. To see the kids we have, just check out some of their introductions in this thread. To see what they're capable of. Posted by Marco Gallotta. After completing the meat of my background chapter in December, I spent the most part of January working on a prototype for my masters project&#...