South African schoolkids come out on top in programming competition

[mylesillidge]

South African schoolkids win programming competition

The #Coding4Mandela tournament was held virtually on Tuesday, 5 December, the day Nelson Mandela died ten years ago.

According to a report released by the Leva Foundation prior to the competition, learners were tasked to practice on a coding app called RANGERS.

 

[nicroets]

I came here expecting to see the name of our next "Bruce Merry" *, but sadly I'm disappointed.

*: https://www.brucemerry.org.za/olympiads.html

 

[SilverCode]

“The alternative is drugs and gangsterism and we had to be that catalyst that brings change to the community and coding is doing a brilliant job at that,” said Overmeyer.

I have to say, after 20 years as a professional programmer, the alternative sounds kinda nice