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Printf("hello, world!"); Google Code Jam begins July 16

Damian Koh | Jul 02, 2008

This one is for all you geeks out there.

The global Google Code Jam is back with a top prize of US$10,000. Registration has already begun and you could be a professional programmer, or just one who likes to write codes to annoy the hell out of others. If you meet the eligibility rules, you can take part.

The top 100 contestants from the local onsite rounds will be flown on an all-expenses-paid trip to Mountain View, California, for the finals. Of course, you'll have to make it through the qualification and online rounds first.

Now, before you click to register, here's what you should know from the Terms and Conditions. Although you'll retain the full intellectual and property rights to your codes, "Google shall have a perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free right to use, copy, distribute, modify and make publicly available the submission in connection with the operation, conduct, administration, and advertising and promotion of the Contest".

In addition, your source codes will be made available for all users to view and download at the end of the competition and you will allow other contestants to have a "world-wide, royalty-free right to use, copy, and modify all submitted source code".

And a little bit of background trivia just so you know what you are getting into. The previous global Code Jam was held in 2006 with finalists from China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan in Asia slugging it out for top honors. The prize money? US$10,000 (guess they didn't factor in inflation).

Or if you are a wimp, you can choose to be a spectator and watch the true geeks battle it out. Now's the right time to get our Rock Band console out for a real jamming session.

Image is a screen grab from the Google Code Jam Web site.

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