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Time: December 1, 2009 to December 10, 2009
Location: Online http://www.codechef.com/DEC09
Website or Map: http://www.codechef.com
Event Type: online, competition
Organized By: CodeChef
Latest Activity: Dec 7, 2009
The CodeChef December Challenge begins on 1st December and will be on through 11th December.
Participants from India ill win cash prizes up to Rs.55k and now for the FIRST TIME, GLOBAL PARTICIPANTS can WIN CASH worth up to $1100 as well!
If you haven't already signed up, log on to http://www.codechef.com and get cracking.
You can submit your solutions in over 35 programming languages including C/C++/C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Haskell, Pascal and more!
You can check out more details about the contest here: http://www.codechef.com/DEC09/.
Cheers,
The Chef
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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