5 Weeks To Learn Topcoder

Here at Topcoder Headquarters and around the United States, school is starting back up. Back to school means back to learning, fun, and more! This is also a great opportunity to try new things. We are kicking off a new program called Five Weeks to Learn Topcoder! Over the next five weeks, we’ll be teaching you all about competing at Topcoder. Each week will be dedicated to showing you the ins and outs of our competition tracks. Keep coming back to this page as we will be adding all the great content from these weeks here just in case you miss it. This education series will be September 4 – October 6, 2017.

Week 1: All About UI Design

• Cendhika’s journey from TCO16 to GE and Part 2

• Topcoder Educational Fun UI Design Challenge

• How to prepare files to provide a good submission — a copilot’s story

• TCO17 UI Design Finalists: The Secret Sauce to Winning a Trip to the Finals

• The Power of Webflow for Designers

• Interview with TCO17 Trip Winning UI Design Finalist zazulyaziz

• LIVE Workshop: Step by Step Guide on how to Compete in a UI Design Challenge with abedavera, tgerring, and fajar.mln

• Techniques to review feedback from challenges and how to apply them

• A Look at the TCO17 Indonesia Regional Event done by Topcoder member cendhika
  
  

Previously Published Resources to Not Miss

• How to Prepare Design Submissions Like a Pro

• Understanding Color for UI Design

• 10 Useful Design Techniques for Mastering Visual Hierarchy

• Why You should Sketch Before you Design
  
  

Week 2: All About UI Prototype

• How to compete on protoype

• 6 Mistakes to Avoid

• Interview with lunarkid (one of the best UI Prototype copilots)

• Interview with all the TCO17 UI Prototype finalists
  
  

Week 3: All About Data Science & Competitive Programming

• How to setup and compete on SRM

• Introductory MM for new members - Watch

• Debugging code for Algo and profiling code for MM

• Good Ol’ Iron Man of Topcoder : 400 SRMs in a row

• Problem writing opportunities and how-tos
  
  

Previously Published Resources to Not Miss

• Algorithm Cheat Sheet

• Marathon Cheat Sheet

• Approaching a Marathon Match Task

• Marathon Matches: An Introduction

• Getting Started with SRMs
  
  

Week 4: All About Code

• How to compete on Code

• Interview with MonicaMuranyi

• Mistakes to Avoid in Code Challenges

• Interview with all the TCO17 Code Finalists

• Development Workshop – All About Code with Akinwale and Nick Castillo

Week 5: All About First2Finish

• How to compete on F2F

• Interview with akinwale

• Interview with all F2F finalists
  
  

Previously Published Resources to Not Miss

• Demystifying the Topcoder Dev Track

• The Fun and Interesting Radix Sort

• Binary Fun

The best part about this program is it’s being run for the community by community members!