The 2011 programming tournament is over but take your own shot at this year's problem. The sponsor's of the tournament, Main Street Softworks, would like to hire some programmers who are proficient in C. If you can solve this problem in C without hunting for someone else's answer, Main Street Softworks would be interested in talking to you about working for them. So, take a shot at it and send them your solution. Click the story link to see the problem.

Benjamin Woodruff wins the title of "Fastest Codeslinger 2011". He solved our 2011 programming problem in 1 hour and 20 minutes with Python. He also won the prize for being first to submit a solution in C. No one had submitted a version in C during the contest yesterday. However, Benjamin coded up a working solution today and sent it in. Click the story link for more.