[UgaBYTES] Google Software Contest for African Students

[Mwathi Francis]

Search engine giant, Google, has announced the start-off of it's
annual African software programmers competition which is coming hot on
the heels of it's recent launch of map domains shoeing an elaborate
and very extensive navigable map of thirty African countries.

This competition named Google Code Jam Africa will throw African
computer students against each other as they flex brain muscles trying
to break software codes and algorithmic whizzes designed by the most
ingenious minds on the planet. Participants coming from Nigeria are
expected to be extensively exposed to software programming and coding
to be able to stand a chance in the competition.

According to a release published by Google Africa Developers on their
official website "this will be a chance to compete against fellow
African programmers and then practice for the Global Code Jam 2010".

Scheduled for Dublin in April, it will run till the last week of July.
Outstanding performers will stand the chance of undergoing internship
training at Google's Engineering Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland,
should they wish to apply.

For more information visit:

http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2010/02/announcing-google-code-jam-africa.html

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