International Collegiate Programming Champion Talks Shop
The winner of the 2003 Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge speaks with DevX about competitive coding, why he prefers C++ over Java in contests, and why he may not even pursue a programming career once he graduates.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
April 23, 2003
inning computer-programming contests is nothing new for David Arthur, but being awarded $50,000 for such a victory is. That's the sum the Duke University junior claimed when he defeated 15 other collegiate programmers from around the world to win the 2003 Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge. After preliminary rounds whittled the field down to 16 final contestants, the tournament culminated in semi-final and final rounds on April 4 and 5, 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Arthur (or dgarthur, as he's known to other programmers in the TopCoder online community), a double major in computer science and mathematics, has won other collegiate programming competitions and even more mathematics competitions at the high-school level in his native Toronto, Canada, but the Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge prize was by far the largest he's won.
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inning computer-programming contests is nothing new for David Arthur, but being awarded $50,000 for such a victory is. That's the sum the Duke University junior claimed when he defeated 15 other collegiate programmers from around the world to win the 2003 
