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Started by Guest_Jordan_* , Jul 10 2007 10:05 AM

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 10:05 AM

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I found a fairly good article about a programmer who won 39 of 45 awards during a programming contest. Seems that his friends think he is one of the best programmers. He prefers Java, C++ and C#.

I managed to find the article online as well:

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What kind of trophies do they give to programming champions? Jiazhi Wu would know. As an undergrad at Zhejiang University in China, Wu won a record 39 out of 45 programming contests held by TopCoder Inc., a Glastonbury, Conn.-based software development and recruiting firm. Winning those global contests — which generate actual software that TopCoder turns around and sells to its corporate customers — also won Wu a cool $155,000.

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:48 PM

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Dang... So anyone guessing he is a 300LBS fat guy with no girlfriend?

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Posted 12 July 2007 - 01:05 PM

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Actually, the magazine I read had a picture of him. He was the stero-typical Asian "smart-guy" nerd looking time. Looked very skinny.

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Posted 12 July 2007 - 11:11 PM

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sorry i forgot to note the sarcasm loL!

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