Neal Wu is one of the best
competitive programmers in the world:
He has competed in six coding contests run by Kolstad’s organization, the USA Computing Olympiad; he won three of them with perfect scores. Wu has the relaxed disposition of a star athlete; he’s confident without ever letting on that he is America’s Great Nerd Hope. “I hate to say he’s the Tiger Woods of computer programming,” Kolstad says, “but he shares the properties of cool, calm under pressure, and consistent, consistent performance.”
Probably went to some fancy-schmancy private school in the Northeast...
He just graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in Louisiana.
...or maybe a public high school in a
below-average district in the state ranked
46th in the country for math education.
2 comments:
Two in a row? What are we to do? You're teasing us!
so do we think his (magnet) schooling was the reason for Mr Wu's achievement?
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