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| Company type | Online coding platform |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | CodinGame / Frédéric Desmoulins (Co-Founder), Nicolas Antoniazzi (Co-Founder), Aude Barral (Co-Founder) |
| Number of employees | 20 |
| Website | codingame |
CodinGame is a technology company editing an online platform for developers, allowing them to play with programming with increasingly difficult puzzles, to learn to code better with an online programming application supporting twenty-five programming languages, and to compete in multiplayer programming contests involving timed artificial intelligence, or code golf challenges.
CodinGame also serves as a recruiting platform, allowing developers to get noticed by companies based on their performance on the contests.
History
CodinGame was founded in 2012 by Frédéric Desmoulins, Nicolas Antoniazzi and Aude Barral.
In May 13, 2013, Dimitri Lebel was hired as a software developer by Frédéric, a R&D Back Office director, after participating in one of CodinGame's coding contests.
Activity
CodinGame's business model is based on sponsoring by companies wanting to get in touch with developers. CodinGame helps these companies to recruit developers through worldwide contests hosted every three months, or private hackathons. The startup was also seeded through several fundraisings in 2013 and 2015.
CodinGame for Work also sells turnkey tech screening solutions to help companies assess the level of their programmer candidates through coding tests.
Available programming languages for solving puzzles or taking part in contests are: Bash, C, C++, C#, Clojure, D, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python (v3), Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript, and Visual Basic .NET.
See also
References
- Romain Dillet (11 November 2015). "With CodinGame, Learning To Code Becomes A Game". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- (in French) Sylvie Brouillet (10 October 2016). "Comment le Montpelliérain CodinGame a réussi à monter un hackathon avec... Warner Bros". L’Usine Digitale.
- Sue Gee (21 November 2013). "CodinGame Contest For Fun and Employment". I-programmer.info. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- Sue Gee (26 April 2016). "Smash The Code Make An Impression With CodinGame". I-programmer.info. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- "CodinGame Raises $1.6 Million to Become the Must-have Gaming Platform for Programmers". ISAI [fr]. 11 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
Further reading
- "CodinGame Is The Most Literal Gamification Of Coding I've Ever Seen, And That's A Good Thing". Kotaku Australia. 13 January 2016. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- Adrian Bridgwater (23 September 2014). "CodinGame Video-Gamifies Programming". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- (in French) Sophy Caulier (11 March 2014). "Des challenges en ligne pour mieux recruter". lemonde.fr.
- (in French) Sylvain Arnulf (7 April 2014). "Les champions de la gamification : CodinGame, jouer pour être recruté". L’Usine Digitale.
- (in French) "Baromètre Codingame : les écoles formant les meilleurs développeurs sont..." Le Journal du Net [fr]. 25 April 2014.
- (in French) Sophy Caulier (22 May 2014). "Des défis en ligne pour trouver la perle rare de l'informatique". letemps.ch.
- (in French) Cyrielle Maurice (3 February 2016). "CodinGame vous apprend le code avec des jeux vidéo". Numerama.