Solving One Problem with 16 Programming Languages, on YouTube

A video blogger recently tackled the same programming problem using 16 different languages, giving viewers a chance to see a wide variety of results, share their own suggestions, and learn about programming languages along the way.

It was a fun demonstration of just how many choices there are in the complex world of programming languages today. But for at least one of the languages, it also turned into a demonstration of the power of a community.

The big event happened on code_report, a YouTube channel “dedicated to competitive programming”. It’s the work of Conor Hoekstra, a senior library software engineer at NVIDIA (working on its RAPIDS suite for data science and analytics pipelines) who’s also held roles at Amazon and Moody’s Analytics. Hoekstra also co-hosts a podcast about array-oriented programming languages and another one about programming-related topics like algorithms and data structures.

But for this YouTube channel, he reviews the solutions from coding contests like LeetCode, HackerRank, Topcoder and Codeforces — and also creates videos about related programming topics like data structures, algorithms and complexity (which were likely to prove useful in those competitions).

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