A visitor posted something on the shoutbox that caught my attention. It’s a statistics on country rankings for developers by TopCoders. In that list, the Philippines was ranked last at number 35 with a rating of only 880 for 12 developers. A lot of other 3rd-world Asian countries are ahead of us — Veitnam (Rank: 19, Developers: 29, Rating: 1600), Bangladesh (Rank: 25, Developers: 23, Rating: 1,422), Pakistan (Rank: 34 Developers: 19, Rating: 941) and Indonesia (Rank: 20, Developers: 33, Rating: 1,587).
I check their formula to see how they were able to come up with the ratings system:
The formula below has the property that if all the coders from a particular country have the same rating, then that country’s rating would be the same as the individual ratings. When coder ratings differ, the country rating is based mostly on the top rated coders. The intent is to provide a better way to rank countries than a simple average.
When generating the country rankings we take the individual ratings for active coders from a particular country, sorted in decreasing order. These ratings are given by rating1 … ratingM, where M is the total number of active coders from a country.
Where:
R = .87, this means that the top 10 coders contribute about 75% of a country’s rating.
Although the sample size of Top Coders isn’t really representative of the population size of the respective countries, we cannot infer that the ratings/ranking is conclusive.
However, assuming all other factors are equal, it’s not a good sign for us Filipino developers to be at the last of the line.
VB LANG CGURO ANG ALAM NG MGA I2 D NA LUMAGPAS ANG KAKAYAHAN NILA SA VB kaya nga BASIC aeh PAMBATA BOYS PREFER THAT PERO WE PREFER VC++
Whatever! alarming yun, last tau? send some brigade to fix that, 2900 lng score nung poland right? 700 plus lang tau, the hell with that, why dont we stop talking bullshit here and join the fucking competition, its stupid to see we’re in the last.. ah.. time lang naman, most filipino programers aint got the time to fuck with those competitions, still i feel bad about the phil. on the last
..and another thing is, most of us dont even care about the rating. like “let it be, so what, i earn from programming and have a nice job, why do i need to join such?”
nah, vb or vc, who gives a fuck, all i know is vb, but if this guys knows a shit about what he’s talkin’ about, he would know that it is not so hard for a vb guy to migrate to c languages, or even “b” pa kung trip mo, c was just an implementation of b anyway, and those who laughed at this should be laughed at cuz they dont fuckin know histrory ” “the c manual of 1974″ d.m. ritchi.. bye
i registered for the topcoders, and to be honest, when i tried out the practice rooms, i realized how insufficient i am, i was able to solve a 250 problem and failed twice on 500′s and 1x on a 1000. and then i became bothered myself.. just last night i digged my VB books and resolve things with my lackness, i realized that im such an insufficient freak,, but not for long, im not gonna let it stay that way, i’ll re-study and im adding the VC in my jargon and making it a part of my vernacular language, i think this is more of a challenge to us rather than just sit and let it be, no way! i learned DOS batching just last two years, and flash a week ago, all self-study, so is it how young you learned something or how fast you learn it..
Ive taught 13 to 16 year old kids html and basic CSS, and JS can they be called developers? I hope we make up for our lack there on the TopCoder site (hope not one flip black hatter discovers this or they hack away the results LOL!)… Well anyways, lets make up for it…
@ Arpee
san ko po makikita yung practice room sa site nang topcoder?
tnx.
hay, sayang kung nadevelop lang ng maayos yung pilipinas e di sana nasa top tayo ng coders. dati pumapangalawa tayo sa japan sa buong asia ngayon pinakababa na. and did you know na ang first virus ay nag-originate sa pilipinas?
guys, penge namn ako ng sample.. hehe.. ng vb prog, ung madali lang.. ty
puwede po bang bigyan nyo po ako ng title sa research namin sa computer thesis mga java scrift o vb ang program tsaka html codes pls……….. tnx…
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