WELCOME TO TOPCODER
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Getting Started
1. Register for Topcoder
2. Fill out your Topcoder profile
3. Set up your payment preferences and take care of tax forms.
WHAT IS TOPCODER
With 1.5 million members around the globe, Topcoder is home to the world’s largest network of designers, developers, data scientists, and quality assurance engineers.
We work with companies that need to build stuff—whether it’s a web app design, a responsive site, or a predictive algorithm—and post those projects to our platform for the Topcoder community to work on.
Topcoder is also a learning and upskilling platform. Many of our members are new to design or coding. Topcoder offers learning opportunities through webinars from the Topcoder team and from our top members, as well on-the-ground learning through participating on projects to learn a new skill first-hand.
Our model might be a little different from how you normally work or learn, but we think you’ll learn to love it!
HOW TO COMPETE
HOW TO COMPETE IN DESIGN
If you love designing web and mobile applications or tackling interesting UX problems, the design track is the place for you.
LEARN MOREHOW TO COMPETE IN DEVELOPMENT
Topcoder offers a number of challenges where you are able to code solutions and submit ideas within different technologies.
LEARN MOREHOW TO COMPETE IN QA
Are you a perfectionist and always finding functional and visual bugs? You’ll love our QA challenges.
LEARN MOREHOW TO COMPETE IN DATA SCIENCE
Do you like to tackle big data problems and solve real problms with large impact?
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TALENT AS A SERVICE
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THRIVE
Thrive is Topcoder’s education and learning center. Members
have access to videos, tutorials, blog posts, articles and more
on everything from getting started on Topcoder to mastering
algorithm challenges.
Topcoder Webinars
Learn something with our webinars!
Webinars are an important part of learning. You can check our upcoming webinars and our past ones to learn new things. We have interesting topics such as how to get started with API & microservices development, how to win data science competitions, design case studies and many others.
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