Lucid has hosted multiple programming competitions and is about to host our biggest one yet in March—Code Kerfuffle—with $50,000 in prizes. Here are some things I’ve learned from helping plan and run Lucid’s programming competitions. 1. Define your purpose The first thing to keep in mind when planning competitions is…
Articles by Elayne Petterson
I’ve always loved learning about different ways messages are encoded. As a little kid I used simple substitution ciphers and created my own alphabets to encode messages to myself. From different books and my computer science classes in college, I learned more about cryptography. I found that, no matter how…