CodeChef

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CodeChef

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Software
Founded	September, 2009
Founder	Bhavin Turakhia
Headquarters	Bangalore , India
Key people	Gaurav Munjal (CEO, Unacademy)
Parent	Unacademy
Website	www.codechef.com

CodeChef is an educational program and competitive programming community of programmers from across the globe. CodeChef was started as an educational initiative in the year 2009 by Directi, an Indian software company.

Apart from its monthly coding contests for the community, CodeChef has many initiatives for schools, colleges and women in competitive programming.^[1] It is credited with hosting the India regionals of the ICPC for college students, as well as for IOI for school students in India. In 2020, its ownership was changed from Directi (founded by Bhavin Turakhia) to Unacademy (Gaurav Munjal, CEO).^[2]

Most parts of CodeChef are available without charge, but the more advanced features require a monthly subscription, ^[3]

History[]

In the year 2009, Directi launched CodeChef to help programmers improve their problem-solving skills through active participation in programming contests. The goal was to help Indian programmers in honing their problem-solving skills by fostering friendly competition and community engagement.^[4]

In July 2010, the organization launched the "Go for Gold" initiative to enable Indian teams to excel at the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (formerly known as ACM-ICPC).^[5]

In July 2013, it inaugurated the 'CodeChef for Schools' program to foster programming talent in school students. The initiative hopes to enable Indian students to excel at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), . The competition requires contestants to show necessary IT skills such as problem analysis, algorithm and data structure design, programming, and testing.^[6]

In November 2017, the first CodeChef Certification exam was conducted. Later in 2018, the organization launched CodeChef for Business to target technology enterprises.

In the year 2020, the ownership of CodeChef was handed over to Unacademy from Directi. After the transition, CodeChef is led by Bhavin Turakhia, and Gaurav Munjal.

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