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Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson
This article goes over the content I taught at the world's largest programming lesson that broke a Guinness World Record with 1668 students.
This incredible lesson was organised by Magma Studio, a company I worked at (and whose partners take random ideas I get waaaay too seriously) and Instituto Superior Técnico, my alma mater. The way this algorithm works is by creating sort of a series of parallel universes in which we try to solve the puzzle with different numbers. The code we write will solve all of these different puzzles in all of these alternate realities and as soon as we find a solution in one of the universes, we stop.
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