International communities have one very remarkable initiative that began several years ago on Stack Overflow in Russian: we celebrate the beginning of the new year with a contest for the best questions and answers with the algorithm tag. The contest lasts for all of January and consists of two sessions: from January 1 to January 10 and from January 11 to January 31. Each session has eight nominations.
Why algorithm?
Many of us recall our university years with nostalgia. It is especially pleasant to remember how we were studying disciplines like discrete mathematics, the theory of algorithms, programming... I think, at work we often have a lack of academic tasks: sorting, searching for elements, permutations, etc. Questions and answers on the algorithm tag might help to fill this gap.
Please join us in congratulating the New Year Algorithm 2019 winners!
Author of a question with the highest score and a question that gets the most answers
@enxaneta with a question “Cómo dibujar un corazón: (el algoritmo del corazón)” that got 24 upvotes and 11 answers!
Author of an answer with the highest score
@devconcept with an answer to a question “¿Cómo organizar una lista de colores de forma eficiente?”. The answer got 21 upvotes.
Author of an answer to their own question, if the answer gets a higher score than any other answers to the question
@nekketsuuu with self-answered question “Git の 3-way merge とは具体的にどのようなアルゴリズムですか？”. The question got 5 upvotes and the answer got 4 upvotes.
Author of an accepted answer with the highest score
@Sergio with an answer to a question “Quando e como devo usar operador instanceof e typeof no JavaScript”. The answer got 14 upvotes.
Author of a question with the most views
@komatsuna with a question “クイックソートの2種類の実装法で実行速度に顕著な違いが出る” that got 12 upvotes, 4 answers, and 452 views!
Author of the most questions
@nekketsuuu has asked 7 questions over the second session. The questions got 26 upvotes and 6 answers in total.
Author of the most answers
@Harry has answered 12 questions over the second session, 9 of them were accepted, the answers got 33 upvotes in total.
Complete list of winners
If you are interested in a complete list of winners on each site, please look at international metas:
- Stack Overflow in Japanese
- Stack Overflow in Portuguese
- Stack Overflow in Spanish
- Stack Overflow in Russian
Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope it was fun for everyone!
