The Geek Brewery

I admit that I am bitter with the results of the Mensa IQ Challenge I took sometime last month. It was a BIG slap on my face, after self-proclaiming myself as a geek. I don’t believe you have to pass Mensa to be a full-pledged full-fledged (as corrected by Aldrin, point well taken) geek. Hahaha. Here’s something geekier than Mensa.

After two sessions of training on our new “programming guild”, I’ve encountered tons of intellectually challenging programming problems. The spectrum of problems were very wide; from counting descendants of a person in a family tree, to beating a greedy opponent on a game, to getting the height of a rocket model using three ground observers using a theodolite, and the list goes on and on.

I admit those problems were new to me and I think it was the best answer for my hunger for knowledge. Those problems squeezed my neurons to the highest level, thus greasing up my brain. Those were the problems that made me realize I still have a lot lot lot more to learn. I mean, A LOT!

To all other geeks out there who have a background on any programming language (preferably C or Java), I dare you to solve the problems on real ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ACM-ICPC). There are a lot of problems available there from ACM-ICPC contests around the globe.

So far, I have only solved four ACM-ICPC problems. My goal is to solve at least one per night. Good luck to me and have fun with those problems.

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