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How to be a good programmer...My tips By Sandip Dev on  Aug 15, 2009 This article has been cross posted from my personal blog : http://www.itsallpartoftheplan.wordpress.com  At the very onset, let me make it clear that I DO NOT consider myself a good programmer. I rate my coding skills as average and I am still learning and have a long way to go before I am even slightly pleased with my programming skills. Yes I am better than quite a few people when it comes to programming, but thats merely because they are lazy and like to sit on idly all day and never bother about programming. Their horrible skills make my less horrible skills look marvellous. I have performed abysmally in ICPC and have never done well in any coding contest worth mentioning (I DO NOT consider college level contests worth mentioning). I havent succeeded yet in Google Summer of Code and my Imagine Cup moderate success (and glorious failure) isn't much to write home about. So most of the tips I will mentio...

Hello Students, Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s largest premier student technology competition. It encourages students around the globe to imagine a better world in which people are empowered by technology. Last year, more than 2,000 students from Pakistan registered in this competition and team  V3C  from  FAST - National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad  and team  The Pioneers  from  Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)  represented Pakistan in the Imagine Cup worldwide finals held in New York City, USA. This year, the Imagine Cup 2012 – Worldwide finals will be held in Australia. IMAGINE CUP 2012 - THEME: The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its  Millennium Development Goals  — ranging from reducing poverty and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to providing universal primary education. The Imagine Cup is calling on young programmers, designers and ...