Hello Codeforces Community,

HackerEarth March Easy'17 will start at 9:30 PM IST on 1st March. The contest is of 3 hours. It will be a rated contest and is open for everyone.

There will be 6 algorithmic problems of various difficulty level. Problems are prepared by me (vaibhavjaimini). They have been thoroughly tested by usaxena95 and editorials are prepared by r3gz3n. Thanks to belowthebelt and r3gz3n for their help in preparing this contest and to MazzForces for his feedback on problems. This is the first time I am preparing a contest, so it'll be great to have some feedback.

Prizes: Top 5 beginners (1st year or 2nd year) will receive HackerEarth Tshirts.

Hope you'll enjoy the problems. Good luck and happy coding!!.

UPD: Contest starts in 30 minutes.

UPD: Contest is over. Here are the top 5:

1. uwi
2. HellKitsune
3. Deemo
4. rubabredwan
5. Kaban-5

Kudos to everyone who participated!! Editorials will be live soon. Any feedback or discussion on problems is welcome.

Hi everyone!

HackerEarth CodeMonk Trees challenge will go live today at 21:00 IST (check your timezone here).

The challenge will have 5 algorithmic tasks to be solved in 3 hours. Problems are based on Binary Trees and Binary Search Trees. You will receive points for every test case your solution passes — so you can get some points with partial solutions as well.

See you on the leaderboard!!.

Hi everyone, Code Monk — Stacks and Queues Challenge will go live today. The challenge is open for everyone and is recommended for all the beginners learning Stacks and Queues. Following are the challenge details:

Start Time: 9 PM IST

Duration: 3 hrs

Link: HackerEarth Code Monk- Stacks and Queues

This time we have a theme of Harry Potter. Hope you'll enjoy all problems.
See you on the leaderboard. All the best!!

Hello everyone,
Programming Club IIIT Jabalpur is conducting MindSweeper-7 on 21 Feb from 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. It's an open contest and everyone is invited to participate. The contest consists of 5 easy-medium level problems to be solved in 2 hours. The contest will be a good exposure to competitive coding for beginners. Register for the challenge here .