Google's Coding Competitions Comes to a Close

In celebration of Google's Coding Competitions, a final round of programming challenges has been released for participants to enjoy. The coding competition lineup has been running for over 20 years and has seen billions of lines of code being generated across millions of submissions.

Coding Competition Lineup

Google's Coding Competition Lineup began with its first round in 2003 before the launch of Chrome, Google Calendar, Android, and YouTube. The competitions grew over time, with Kick Start being a contest for recent graduates, Hash Code being Google's first team-based challenge, and the Distributed Code Jam being a challenge that required participants to build solutions that could scale on multiple machines.

Farewell Rounds

To end Google's Coding Competitions, the community was invited to attend four hours of competition as part of the Farewell Rounds. Participants who weren't able to attend the final event can still try their hand at the problem sets using practice mode on Google's Coding Competitions site until June 1.

A Journey Together

The coding competitions featured conceptual art, slides, gophers, and absurd numbers of pancakes. Although the competitions have come to an end, Google celebrates the community who took part in millions of hours of code execution and testing. The repository for the final coding challenges will remain up, and PDF versions of the statements and available analyses are provided for ease of viewing.