Pi Day
Coding Competition

Every year we celebrate the beautiful irrationality of π with a hackathon during a party.
For our startups it’s an opportunity to meet talented developers while having some fun.

Top Coders
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Participants will be selected from our dev network. They will have to code under pressure and contingencies.

Hacks
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Coders will be required to solve 4 problems. Text processing of around 10MB of data provided

Rewards

A Desk At Pi Campus

Full access to Pi Campus to work on personal projects for 1 year

Alienware 13″ Laptop

The most powerful geek computer

Rules

Coders will take part in a knockout competition. In each round, coders will have to write a hack to solve a specific part of a bigger problem. Each round lasts for 20 minutes.
# 1
Coders will take part in a knockout competition. In each round, coders will have to write a hack to solve a specific part of a bigger problem. Each round lasts for 20 minutes.
# 2
Coders will receive the problem 5 minutes prior to placing their hands on the keyboard. They will have five minutes to discuss the problem with anyone they want. (Experts may be invited!
# 3

Not only do they have to solve the problems: a special jury will declare who solved the given problem in the smartest way.

Hacks solved

Extract and organize information from a set of Wikipedia pages about diseases (provided)
Upload datas extracted in step #1 into a graph database
Query the database to identify diseases with similar symptoms and different diseases with the same symptoms
Present data from #3 in a good looking and usable format

Jurors

alberto massidda

Alberto Massidda

Infrastructure Manager & Pi Evangelist

antonio farina

Antonio Farina

Director of Engineering at Translated

Gianluca Granero

Co-founder Pi Campus & CTO at Memopal

Flavio Antonioli

CEO at n-Track

francesco furiani

Francesco Furiani

CTO at Clickmeter

Luca Garulli

Luca Garulli

CEO Orient Technologies

Luca Rossi

CTO at Wanderio