100 top CS students flock to SF for hacker Olympics

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How can you truly rank CS students? Is it by exam scores, or ability to memorize algorithms? Maybe it's by code quality, or fluency?

Just asking because when I ask myself, "am I good programmer?" I come up short of an honest answer, so I'm left asking myself, "have you improved in the last month, 2 months, year?" Obviously I want to be the best, and maybe some answers to the question might shed light on how you can evaluate yourself.

Of course there is no absolute measure but they held various contests from hackathons to coding puzzles/challenges and took the top performers of each challenge. Obviously this won't get the absolute best students but it is arguably a sufficient enough filter to at least get very skilled CS students.

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