Northwestern students wrestled with high-pressure problems at the Mid-Central Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest held in November.

Some people enjoy solving problems, and then there are those who land top tech jobs by doing just that. Competitive programming (CP) is a sport for the mind, where coders have to solve problems with ...

Ahmed Aly, a highly sought-after software engineer who spent three years at Google working on its search algorithim and organizing the Code Jam contest, just jumped ship to work at HackerRank − a ...