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21st July, 2010: New Kerala

Directi launches 'Go for Gold' for aspiring software Developers
Excerpt: Directi, an internet products company, today launched "Go for Gold', an initiative aimed at helping aspiring Indian software developers excel at the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
21st July, 2010: India Infoline Limited

Directi announces 'Go for Gold'
Excerpt: This international competition, currently in its 34th edition, has been run by Baylor University, USA and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a society of more than 96,000 computing educators, researchers, professionals and students worldwide, since the mid-1970's as the premier programming competition. Last year 103 teams throughout the world participated in the world finals.
21st July, 2010: The Education Times

Go for Gold initiative
Excerpt: 'Go for Gold is a non-profit initiative conceptualized and driven by Directi to enable an Indian team to excel at the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM - ICPC), the most competitive programming challenge in the world.

19th July, 2010: e-World, The Hindu Business Line

Foster 'a Passion for Programming'
Excerpt: "The goal is ambitious. We want an Indian team to win the ACM-ICPC Contest. To date the highest place any Indian team has achieved is 29th. A cash prize and Go for Gold trophy will be awarded to any team that does better than this. Calculated using the 'Golden Rule', the cash prize starts at over Rs.5.07 lacs in the first year and will cross Rs.10.15 lacs in the third year.
14th September, 2009: Education Plus, The Hindu, Hyderabad

Skill test for IT Professionals
Excerpt: "Launched in March early this year, the site already has 11,000 registered users and for students like Anshuman Singh a 4th year Comp Sci student at IIIT Hyd who stood as programmer of the month in August, the site comes as a real help"
10th September, 2009: Financial Chronicle, Mumbai

Test your coding skills online
Excerpt: "We designed CodeChef as an initiative to supplement the Indian education system by enabling knowledge sharing and driving learning through competition. We are determined to bridge the gap and help aspiring software developers in India develop into highly talented professionals"
9th September, 2009: Financial Chronicle
Whats in it 4 me: Video
Excerpt: "Bhavin Turakhia, founder, chairman and chief executive of Directi, on how learning through collaboration and competition promotes the coding community."
9th September, 2009: New Indian Express, Bangalore
Directi program to promote technical education

Excerpt: "Out of all the students in the top 100 tech universities globally only 0.67% are educated within India. This is a significantly small percentage considering India houses 1/6th of the world's population."
27th July, 2009: The Telegraph, Kolkata

What does the future hold for CodeChef?
Excerpt: "Generally, we have standard algorithm competitions. Additionally, we are planning conferences and series of events where we will have both local and international speakers. We are also in talks to start an Indian programming week in high schools. We will also kick off an artificial intelligence."
11th June, 2009: The Tribune, Chandigarh
Game For it?

Excerpt: "All you students, programmers and technology enthusiasts out there, you have something really cool coming your way this summer. CodeChef, India's first non-commercial, multi-platform online coding competition, brings to you the CodeChef Gamers' Challenge."
8th June, 2009: The Hindu Business Line
Game for the Challenge?

Excerpt: "Gamers rejoice! Directi, an Internet products company, recently announced the launch of the CodeChef Gamers' challenge. The contest invites students, programmers and technology enthusiasts across the country to design internet browser gamers and win prizes."
5th June, 2009: The New Indian Express
Gaming Challenge

Excerpt: "Do you take pleasure in fiddling around with algorithms, C++, Python, Ruby, Java and all the programming languages that some of us find incomprehensible? Well then, the contest at codechef.com is just the thing."
29th May, 2009: The Times of India, Bangalore

May Gamers Challenge Announcement.
29th May, 2009: The Hindu, Bangalore
Are you game for Codechef?

Excerpt: "Here is an opportunity for gaming enthusiasts and programmers to get into the creative mode and design a game of their own. CodeChef invites students, programmers and technology enthusiasts from across the country to design their own internet browser game."
28th May, 2009: Deccan Herald, Bangalore

May Gamers Challenge Announcement.
22nd May, 2009: Mumbai Mirror
CODECHEF.COM
Excerpt: "A non-commercial web site for Indian coders, CodeChef supports over 35 programming languages, and has a large community that helps Indian students and professionals test and improve their coding skill."

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CodeChef - A Platform for Aspiring Programmers

CodeChef was created as a platform to help programmers make it big in the world of algorithms, computer programming and programming contests. At CodeChef we work hard to revive the geek in you by hosting a programming contest at the start of the month and another smaller programming challenge in the middle of the month. We also aim to have training sessions and discussions related to algorithms, binary search, technicalities like array size and the likes. Apart from providing a platform for programming competitions, CodeChef also has various algorithm tutorials and forum discussions to help those who are new to the world of computer programming.

Practice Section - A Place to hone your 'Computer Programming Skills'

Try your hand at one of our many practice problems and submit your solution in a language of your choice. Our programming contest judge accepts solutions in over 35+ programming languages. Preparing for coding contests were never this much fun! Receive points, and move up through the CodeChef ranks. Use our practice section to better prepare yourself for the multiple programming challenges that take place through-out the month on CodeChef.

Compete - Monthly Programming Contests and Cook-offs

Here is where you can show off your computer programming skills. Take part in our 10 day long monthly coding contest and the shorter format Cook-off coding contest. Put yourself up for recognition and win great prizes. Our programming contests have prizes worth up to Rs.20,000 and $700lots more CodeChef goodies up for grabs.

Discuss

Are you new to computer programming? Do you need help with algorithms? Then be a part of CodeChef's Forums and interact with all our programmers - they love helping out other programmers and sharing their ideas. Have discussions around binary search, array size, branch-and-bound, Dijkstra's algorithm, Encryption algorithm and more by visiting the CodeChef Forums and Wiki section.

CodeChef Community

As part of our Educational initiative, we give institutes the opportunity to associate with CodeChef in the form of Campus Chapters. Hosting online programming competitions is not the only feature on CodeChef. You can also host a coding contest for your institute on CodeChef, organize an algorithm event and be a guest author on our blog.

Go For Gold

The Go for Gold Initiative was launched about a year after CodeChef was incepted, to help prepare Indian students for the ACM ICPC World Finals competition. In the run up to the ACM ICPC competition, the Go for Gold initiative uses CodeChef as a platform to train students for the ACM ICPC competition via multiple warm up contests. As an added incentive the Go for Gold initiative is also offering over Rs.8 lacs to the Indian team that beats the 29th position at the ACM ICPC world finals. Find out more about the Go for Gold and the ACM ICPC competition here.

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