Information About Google Code Jam 2015

Google Code Jam is one of the most popular computer programming contest in the world. This programming contest consists of intense algorithmic puzzles held over multiple online rounds culminating in an on-site final round with the top 26 contestants. This contest is opened on every year. You can check every information update in its homepage https://code.google.com/codejam. For Google Code Jam 2015, registration will open on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015.


Anyone under 13 years old can participate in this contest, except ineligible individuals that is described in the https://code.google.com/codejam/terms.html. But participants under 18 years at the time of registration are ineligible for the onsite final round. The participants under 18 years only eligible to win a t-shirt. Gennady.Korotkevich took the title, from reigning champion mystic, for the first time after qualifying for the finals in the past but not being able to participate due to his age (under 18). But never mind. Even you are already older than this and doesn't have any experiences about competitive programming, so this is the time to get the experience. At least there will be a lot of new things we can learn by joining such a contest.
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Here is some important date and time for you if you are interested to join the contest.
Schedule: Google Code Jam 2015

Date	Time (UTC)*	Duration	Description
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Ends: Sunday, April 12 at 02:00 UTC	19:00 UTC	33d 7hr	Registration
Friday, April 10, 2015	23:00 UTC	27hr	Qualification Round
Saturday, April 18, 2015	01:00 UTC	2hr 30min	Online Round 1: Sub-Round A
Saturday, May 2, 2015	16:00 UTC	2hr 30min	Online Round 1: Sub-Round B
Sunday, May 10, 2015	09:00 UTC	2hr 30min	Online Round 1: Sub-Round C
Saturday, May 30, 2015	14:00 UTC	2hr 30min	Online Round 2
Saturday, June 13, 2015	14:00 UTC	2hr 30min	Online Round 3
Friday, August 14, 2015	TBD	TBD	Onsite Finals

* All times are 24-hour Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Here's how to convert UTC into your local time.

If you need practice, you can get some resources and guides from...

1. Practice and Learn web page in the Google Code Jam homepage.
2. http://www.go-hero.net/jam/ which provide the archive for problem sets and submitted solutions of Google Code Jam from 2008 until the latest contest (for now, 2014).
3. TopCoder which runs regular algorithm competitions called SRMs (Single Round Matches) that anyone can participate in.
4. Sphere Online Judge that hosts a lot of problems.
5. ACM ICPC. You can try to solve problems that have been used in old ACM contests (local and global) on your own at their Online Judge.

For more information about Google Code Jam 2015, you can access https://code.google.com/codejam.