April 20, 2008
Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights
Jack Hughes, cofounder of TopCoder, admits that if he were to compete in one of his company's online computer programming competitions he'd be laughed off the screen. Hughes, a computer programmer, said his inability to write elegant code at cyber-speed doesn't bother him a whit. Since 2001, the privately owned Glastonbury, Conn., company has summoned some of the world's best programmers to its Web site with the lure of online glory -- and cash.