Challenge Overview
Competition Introduction
Welcome to our Topcoder Skill Builder Competition for Databricks and Apache Spark! These competitions are designed for everyone to skill up, have fun, and earn more money through Topcoder Gigs and Competitions.
Jump-in, build your skills and as always let us know what you think and where Topcoder can continue to improve and bring competitions that are meaningful to you.
Topcoder Skill Builder Competitions
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Skill Builder Competitions will have three (3) problems (Easy, Medium, and Hard) to solve allowing you to submit and learn as you go.
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As you know, we have a lot of Gig Work Opportunities offers available for you right now. We would use these competitions to match you to our Gig Work Opportunities and also provide you with a Verified Skill Badge on your Topcoder Profile so you can add them to your resumes. So don’t hesitate to jump in, work on the competitions, and earn a job for yourself.
Prizes
We have 10 prizes to give out. These prizes will be given out manually (and not at the end of the contest automatically) based on the reviews and leaderboards. The prizes are:
1st: $150
2nd: $75
3rd: $50
4th: $50
5th until 10th: $25
Problem Statement
This is the host contest. DO NOT SUBMIT TO THIS CONTEST. Check out the links to the individual contests for each difficulty type below and submit in the respective contests.
Technology Stack
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Python
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Scala
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SQL
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Apache Spark
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Databricks
You can use either Python, Scala, SQL or a combination of these in your notebook. ONLY the Easy difficult type contest has Apache Spark as optional. For Medium and Hard contests, you compulsorily need to use Apache Spark
Instructions:
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We have prepared three problems: Easy, Medium, and Hard, which are worth 250, 500, 1000 points respectively. Points are based on the difficulty of the problem.
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The competitions may or may not be related to each other.
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The links to the problems/competitions are provided below.
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Each problem has requirement tasks to achieve. We will judge your submission based on the requirement being fulfilled in each problem, so as long as the requirements are met with minimal code quality, you would be rewarded with points for that particular problem.
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Here is the leaderboard with individual problem score and total score across weeks is available.