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2016 internships

21 October 2016, by

As a second year Computer Science student at Cambridge without much free time, I had learnt a lot of theory but had done surprisingly little useful programming. I therefore applied for a summer internship at Softwire to change this. I wanted to gain experience working a proper project from beginning to end and Softwire did not disappoint. I did a four-week training internship starting at the end of July.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q4 Solution

3 August 2016, by

This post explains the solutions to Question 4 of our speed coding 2016 competition. If you haven’t yet read the question, head back and have a go now.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q3 Solution

27 July 2016, by

This post explains the solutions to Question 3 of our speed coding 2016 competition. If you haven’t yet read the question, head back and have a go now.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q2 Solution

20 July 2016, by

This post explains the solutions to Question 2 of our speed coding 2016 competition. If you haven’t yet read the question, head back and have a go now.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q1 Solution

13 July 2016, by

This post explains the solutions to Question 1 of our speed coding 2016 competition. If you haven’t yet read the question, head back and have a go now.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q3

20 April 2016, by

Here’s the third of our speed coding questions.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q2

13 April 2016, by

Here’s question 2 from our recent speed coding competition. See how quickly you can solve it.

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Speed Coding 2016 – Q1

6 April 2016, by

Here’s the first question from our speed coding competition 2016. We’ve already held the event, so there are no prizes, but if you want to play along at home, see how quickly you can solve the challenge.

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Speed Coding 2016 Intro

30 March 2016, by

In case you didn’t hear through our twitter or facebook accounts, we recently held our 2016 speed coding competition. Questions were devised by the last competition’s runner-up Rupert Wood, with help from John Ginger.

The format of the evening was:

Question 1 – 20 minutes

Question 2 – 30 minutes

Question 3 – 40 minutes

Pizza – 30 minutes

Question 4 – 1 hour

In the upcoming series of posts, we’ll be releasing the questions, quickest answers as well as some hints and tips on interesting techniques that people took in their solutions.