These days there are a heck load of Programmers popping out every day!! It really becomes a lot more interesting to find out who are really the best!!
In this list, I’ve found out 14 of the best programmers alive!!
Here we go!!
1. Jon Skeet
He is the Legendary Stack Overflow Contributor!
He’s a Google engineer and an author of C# in Depth. He has held the highest reputation score of all time on Stack Overflow, answering on average, more than 430 questions per month!
2. Gennady Korotkevich
He’s the Competitive Programming Prodigy!
Youngest participant ever (age 11) and 6 time gold medalist (2007-2012) in the International Olympiad in Informatics. Part of the winning team at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2013 and winner of the 2014 Facebook Hacker Cup. At the time of this writing, ranked first by Codeforces (handle: Tourist) and second among algorithm competitors by TopCoder.
3. Linus Torvalds
He is the Creator of Linux!
Created the Linux kernel and Git, an open source version control system. Winner of numerous awards and honors, including the EFF Pioneer Award in 1998, the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal in 2000, the Millenium Technology Prize in 2012, and the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award in 2014. Also inducted into the Computer History Museum’s Hall of Fellows in 2008 and the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.
4. Jeff Dean
He is the brain behind Google search indexing!
Helped to design and implement many of Google’s large-scale distributed systems, including website crawling, indexing, and searching; AdSense; MapReduce; BigTable; and Spanner. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009. 2012 winner of the ACM’s SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
5. John Carmack
He is the Creator of Doom!
Cofounded id Software and created such influential FPS games as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Pioneered such ground-breaking computer graphic techniques adaptive tile refresh, binary space partitioning, and surface caching. Inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2001 and given a lifetime achievement award by the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2010.
6. Richard Stallman
He is the Creator of Emacs, GCC!
Founded the GNU Project and created many of its core tools, such as Emacs, GCC, GDB and GNU Make. Also founded the Free Software Foundation. Winner of the ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1990 and the EFF’s Pioneer Award in 1998.
7. Petr Mitrechev
He is One of the top competitive programmers of all time!
Two-time gold medal winner in the International Olympiad in Informatics (2000, 2002). In 2006, won the Google Code Jam and was also the TopCoder Open Algorithm champion. Also, two-time winner of the Facebook Hacker Cup (2011, 2013). At the time of this writing, the top ranked algorithm competitor on TopCoder (handle: Petr) and ranked fifth by Codeforces.
8. Fabrice Bellard
He’s the Creator of QEMU!
Created a variety of well-known open-source software programs, including QEMU, a platform for hardware emulation and virtualization; FFmpeg, for handling multimedia data; the Tiny C Compiler; and LZEXE, an executable file compressor. Winner of the Obfuscated C Code Contest in 2000 and 2001 and the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2011. Former world record holder for calculating the most number of digits in Pi.
9. Doug Cutting
He is the Creator of Lucene!
Developed the Lucene search engine, as well as Nutch, a web crawler, and Hadoop, a set of tools for distributed processing of large data sets. A strong proponent of open-source (Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop are all open-source). Currently a director of the Apache Software Foundation.
10. Donald Knuth
He is the Author of The Art of Computer Programming!
Wrote the definitive book on the theory of programming. Created the TeX digital typesetting system. First winner of the ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1971. Winner of the ACM’s A. M. Turing Award in 1974, the National Medal of Science in 1979 and the IEEE’s John von Neumann Medal in 1995. Named a Fellow at the Computer History Museum in 1998.
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