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You can learn a lot watching Jeopardy!

Whilst watching the 12 Nov 2021 episode on 18 Nov 2021 (via DVR) I heard the champion, Andrew He, say there are two programmers with his name. He's not the Andrew He who is the champion competitive programmer; he's the Andrew He who's met Ken Jennings.

2021-11-21 additions:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAeiXy8-9Y8
  • Code Submission Evaluation System
https://cses.fi/about
  • (296 pages) Competitive Programmer’s Handbook, Antti Laaksonen
  • Draft July 3, 2018
https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20211027100049/https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf


Question: Can Competitive Programming be considered a form of eSports?

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While the competitive programming articles classifies competitive programming as a mind sport it's not a stretch to say the same about esports. (See the Esports Navbox below.)

Competitive programming certainly is not a part of gaming culture, or is it?

I've just added two categories to Category:Programming contests, I just made Programming contests a sub-category of:


  • Off wiki links:
https://icpc.global/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-prepare-for-acm-icpc/
https://www.codechef.com/icpc
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/mit-team-places-second-acms-global-programming-competition
  • The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers
    • In the sport of coding, there’s one superstar and a lot of contenders looking for scholarships and job interviews.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-09-25/the-jocks-of-computer-code-do-it-for-the-job-offers
  • Andrew He profiles:
https://cphof.org/profile/topcoder:ecnerwal
https://www.codechef.com/users/ecnerwala
https://tco19.topcoder.com/interviews/ecnerwal
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/81344
https://tco19.topcoder.com/interviews/ecnerwal
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/81358
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-he/
  • Jeopardy! champion Andrew He:
https://wealthyspy.com/andrew-he/
  • Pretty sure this is Andrew He's linkedin page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhe/