The document outlines the benefits of participating in coding competitions, highlighting categories such as individual and team events across various programming languages. It provides tips for problem-solving and mentions notable competitions for different age groups, as well as recruitment processes for software engineers. Additionally, it includes motivational quotes from influential thinkers on expertise and learning.

1. Mohamed Elawady
Computer Science Department
Suez Canal University
Email: mawady@acm.org Phone: 01227011260
3awady @mawady

2. Agenda
 Why Participating?
 Categories
 Notable Competitions
 Others…
 Problem Solving: Quick Tips
 References
 YALLA Code

3. “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is
the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Non-Fiction Writer, Journalist

4. Why Participating?
Community
Prize
Aspect
Career Skills
Opportunities Improvement

5. Categories
Individual Team
Online Onsite

6. Notable Competitions
Individual
C, C++
or Pascal
1989
2 Days
Secondary School Students

7. Notable Competitions
Team(3)
C, C++
or Java
1970
4 Days
University Students

8. Notable Competitions
Individual
Any Lang
2003
Anyone Older Than 13

9. Notable Competitions
Team
MS Platform
2003
Anyone Older Than 16

10. Notable Competitions
Individual
Any Lang
2011
Anyone Older Than 18

11. “There are two ways of constructing a software design:
One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so
complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The
first method is far more difficult.”
C. A. R. Hoare
Computer Scientist
1980
Quick Sort

12. Others…

13. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher

14. Problem Solving: Quick Tips
String
Data
Analysis and Graph Theory
Structure
Processing
Arithmetic Artificial
Algorithms
and Geometry Intelligence
Programming
Languages

15. References

16. “If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard
them as {lines produced} but as {lines spent}.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computer Scientist
1972
Shortest Path Algorithm

17. YALLA Code #yallacode
Learn More
Programming
Languages
Help More Explore More
Software Computer
Engineers Technologies
Find More
Creative
Ideas

18. YALLA Code #yallacode
Recruitment Process
Essays
• Past
Experiences Assessment
• Future Plan Test:
CV Interview
and Vision English, IQ,
• Reasons for Technical
Joining
Due Date : 16/04/2012

19. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler
Sociologist & Futurist