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MindCoding 2016
By Sergiu, history, 9 years ago, In English

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Hello Codeforces!

The third edition of MindCoding is going to make its debut on Thursday, the 4th of February, 19:00 EET, with a Test Round. I invite you all to participate and help us test the improvements in our platform on this occasion.

There will be a total of 4 online qualification rounds, and one on-site final round. The final will take place in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the same as last year.

The format of the contest is similar to that of Codeforces and TopCoder, so the learning curve should be quite mild. A new feature for this year is the addition of a second division, for beginners.

The rounds are organized by fellow Codeforces members:

Last year's winners were rewarded with a total prize pool of €1500. You might recognize some of them from competitions such as the IOI and ACM-ICPC.

2015 winners

You can use the quick-start guide and the existing problem archive for practice. Some of my favourite problems are:

If you happen to struggle in coming up with a solution, most problems have a description of the answer on the right-hand side of the page.

One of the last edition's finalists

I hope you all have fun participating in our test and qualification rounds!

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Are there any prizes in qualification rounds other than going to the onsite round?

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    The winner of the test round will win a MindCoding t-shirt. As for the other rounds — we have not decided yet, but you can expect something similar.

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Any chance of adding C# support?

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    We have recently added

    • Brainfuck (bfc)
    • C# (gmcs)
    • D (dmd)
    • Golfscript (golfscript.rb)
    • Julia (julia)
    • PHP (php)
    • Rust (rustc)
    • OCaml (ocaml)

    and plan on adding Oberon and Python 3.5, along with the existing 2.7 version.

    As they're still in testing, I can't guarantee that the languages will be ready in time for the first round. I will update this comment whenever we get a new language to behave nicely :D.

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      UPDATE: We have added PHP, Python 3 and OCaml.

      The first qualification round starts in 1.5 hours, so make sure you create an account in the meantime. Hope you have fun!

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        how to register for the cooming contest? or I just need to register in the website?

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          Just create an account before the contest starts. You will be able to submit solutions during the contest without explicitly registering.

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The format of the contest is similar to that of Codeforces and TopCoder

is there any similar challenge phase or hacking options like TC and CF?

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