Hey Guys n Gals,

Amidst all your feature requests we have added the much awaited “deleting your comment” feature. What this means is that now you will be able to delete any comment posted by you without waiting for the admins to approve it! Hope this makes life slightly more convenient for you and also help you to keep the comments section clean.

CodeChef moderators will now be able to un-publish/approve comments that they deem inappropriate directly from the comments section.

Keep dropping in your suggestions to feedback@codechef.com. The next feature to be taken up can be yours.

–Tojo
(Team CodeChef)

Fellow programmers!

This is to inform you that we have secured the cluster judging option on CodeChef; we have always received feedback about the judge’s delayed response-time, and cluster judging will now double the judge’s response speed, such that you can forget the slow judge of yesteryear. You can experience it first-hand at all our practice sections.

We’re encouraging any feedback you can give us regarding anomalies that you may come across while submitting your solutions, and we’ll fix it right away – Once we have ensured our cluster judging system is flawless, we’ll be activating it for our contests.

Therefore, if we can work together on this and work fast enough, we can employ cluster judging for this Sunday’s Cook-off.
So, let’s make this happen!

Hey CodeCheffers,

After getting numerous amounts of requests in the form of bugs and feedback, we have gone ahead and updated our Facebook Integration feature on CodeChef. In the new release we have:

* New Facebook Graph API
* New Recommend/Send button on the Problem Pages
* Overhauled the entire workflow of Facebook Integration.

Please note that all Facebook connected users will have to connect their CodeChef accounts with Facebook and set their auto publishing options again. We apologize for this but we could not avoid clearing all the Facebook accounts in CodeChef.

So the next time you guys login to CodeChef, be sure to use the Facebook Connect feature. If you guys do find any issues, please drop in a mail to bugs@codechef.com.

Cheers!
Team CodeChef

Greetings CodeCheffers,

In order to make your programming endevours more interesting, we have added the following new languages to CodeChef :

1.) Clojure (clojure-1.1.0)
2.) Go (gc-2010-07-14)
3.) Python3 (python-3.1.2)
4.) Fsharp (fsharp-2.0.0)
5.) Perl6 (rakudo-2010.08)

These languages will appear in the language selection drop down on the solution submission page. Also Bash and Perl Languages have been updated to bash-3.2.29 and perl-5.12.1.

Some perl submissions which were made before the upgrade may not work with the new version due to compatibility issues.

So now along these new languages, these are the 48 programming languages that CodeChef supports

1.) ADA 95 (gnat-4.3.2)
2.) Assembler (nasm-2.03.01)
3.) Bash (bash-3.2.29)
4.) Brainf**k (bff-1.0.3.1)
5.) C (gcc-4.3.2)
6.) C# (gmcs-2.0.1)
7.) C++ (gcc-4.0.0-8)
8.) C++ (gcc-4.3.2)
9.) C99 strict (gcc 4.3.2)
10.) Clips (clips-6.24)
11.) Clojure (clojure-1.1.0)
12.) Common Lisp (clisp-2.44.1)
13.) Common Lisp (sbcl-1.0.18)
14.) D (gdc-4.1.3)
15.) Erlang (erlang-5.6.3)
16.) F# (fsharp-2.0.0)
17.) Fortran (gfortran-4.3.2)
18.) Go (gc-2010-07-14)
19.) Haskell (ghc-6.10.4)
20.) Icon (iconc-9.4.3)
21.) Intercal (ick-0.28-4)
22.) JAR (javac-1.6.0_12)
23.) Java (javac-1.6.0_12)
24.) JavaScript (rhino 1.7R1-2)
25.) Lua (luac-5.1.3)
26.) Nemerle (ncc-0.9.3)
27.) Nice (nice-0.9.6)
28.) Ocaml (ocamlopt-3.10.2)
29.) Pascal (fpc-2.2.4)
30.) Pascal (gpc-20070904)
31.) PDF
32.) Perl (perl-5.12.1)
33.) Perl6 (rakudo-2010.08)
34.) PHP (php-5.2.6)
35.) Pike (pike-7.6.112)
36.) PostScript
37.) Prolog (swipl-5.6.58)
38.) Python (python-2.5)
39.) Python3 (python-3.1.2)
40.) Ruby (ruby-1.9.0)
41.) Scala (scala-2.8.0)
42.) Scheme (stalin-0.11)
43.) Scheme (guile-1.8.5)
44.) Smalltalk (gst-3.0.3)
45.) Tcl (tclsh-8.5.3)
46.) Text (pure text)
47.) Whitespace (wspace-0.2)
48.) Word

Happy Programming,
Tojo Chacko

Welcome to the February Programmer of the Month edition!

This month we have a young 20 year old Rudradev Basak who is our Programmer of the Month. Rudradev has been part of CodeChef since August and surprisingly, just at the age of 20 he is already considered a great programmer. In the last 5 months, he has been in the winning 4 times already, we hope this is just the start and we have a lot to see from this great mind. On behalf of the CodeChef team, we wish him good luck for the future.  Now let’s see what Rudradev has to tell us about himself.

Name:  Rudradev Basak
Age:  20
Institute:  IIT Delhi
User id:  rudradevbasak

Brief introduction about yourself:

I am a 3rd year student doing my B.Tech. in CSE@IITD. I have always liked to solve puzzles, both mathematical and algorithmic.

How/When did you start programming?

I learnt BASIC in middle school, and a bit of Java and C++ in standards 10 and 12 respectively. I liked to code even then, and of course I did learn a lot in my first couple of year at IITD, but I was introduced to competitive programming only in around April 2010. Also I owe it to my teammates (Nikhil and Pradeep) for getting me interested in ACM ICPC in around August last year, and I have been programming a lot since then.

What do you do when you’re not programming?

Between IITD curriculum and programming, there is not much time for much else. However when I do get time, you would find me playing games, watching movies with my friends, reading fiction or playing with a Rubik’s Cube.

What do you like most about CodeChef?

The fact that the long contests really give you time to learn and try out new things. Also it has been a great platform to boost programming awareness among Indians.

How many hours a day do you program?

Depends. Can vary from zero to ten depending on my mood and how much other work I have.

If you could eat dinner with any famous person (past or present), who would it be and what dish would you have?

Am not sure about the person, but I would probably have a couple of Chicken Rolls

What is the secret to being a good programmer?

A passion for programming, a bit of hard work (but it is not really ‘hard work’ if you really have the passion), and also some inherent math and logical ability.

And sure for success in online contests you need a lot of practice.

What are your plans for the future?

I would like to complete my undergraduate studies, and in the meanwhile, try to perform well at this (and also hopefully the next) ICPC World Finals. After that I may go for higher studies in CS, but I am not very sure.

As a part of our efforts to improve, we are load testing CodeChef. Hence the site may be down temporarily for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We will be back running smoothly from Friday onwards. Please bear with for a 2-3 days, we promise that we will be back as a quicker and lighter website. Any issues can be reported to feedback@codechef.com.

Regards,
Vishal

Hello everybody,

In our efforts to increase security in CodeChef, we have restricted log-in into an account from only one system at a time. So, now if a user is already logged in from a system and she logs in again from a different system then she will be logged out from the previous one. The feature also holds for team login. So now one team can be logged in from only one system. If users face any issue, please send a mail to feedback@codechef.com.

Thanking You.
Tojo

Candy Corns,
By popular demand you can now view all submissions for practice problems which you have successfully solved. You’ve solved a problem in Java, you can now see how someone else solved it in C. Hopefully you will use this power for good, and learn from other members as well as assist those who are having trouble.

How else can we improve the site? What can we do, to help you become better programmers?

Let us know,
Amit

Chocolate Chips,
We’ve been hard at work developing a new and improved CodeChef 2.0 site. Here’s a short list of features you can expect in the coming weeks: shoutbox/chat, campus dashboards, a help wiki, rankings page, individual statistics, levels, awards and more…

Take a look:

This is not a final mockup but hints at some of the new features we are rolling out. You’ll start seeing updates in the next few weeks. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Chef