Top 10 countries for computer programming
Recently, HackerRank published a study showing which countries have the best developers. HackerRank is a free coding practice website that allows developers to enhance their coding skills by solving challenges. In other words, the HackerRank platform is the destination for the best engineers to perfect their skills and companies to find top engineers. The company has ranked 1.5 million developers based on the speed and accuracy with which people complete the challenges.
This study ranked which countries were best overall, which countries ruled in each type of challenge, which types of challenges were most popular, and which languages each country favoured.
The United States and India overall put up disappointing numbers despite having the most participants on the site with U.S. coming at 28th position and India following a little behind at the 31st position.
Let’s have a look at who’s made into the top list and why?
1 China
In HackerRank’s overall list, China clinched the 1st position for the best performing computer programmers. When it comes to specific types of challenges, China is the best performing country in data structure, mathematics, and functional programming.
2 Russia
It is no surprise that Russia’s strong performance in HackerRank’s challenges has got them to this list. Russia is the most dominant country when it comes to algorithms, which is the most popular kind of challenge on the site.
3 Poland
Java is the preferred language among many of the HackerRank’s users. It is particularly remarkable to see Poland in the list, as it has won Java challenges on HackerRank’s site. Poland also offers coding classes in their schools like many of the other countries on this list.
4 Switzerland
Switzerland is one of the most dominant countries across the board, as it scores the top five in nine of them of the 15 top types of challenges on HackerRank. Switzerland was also the origin of Pascal, one of the first computer programming languages. Additionally, Switzerland was also ranked no. 1 in the Global Innovation Index’s 2016 report.
5 Hungary
Hungary tops the world in performance on tutorial challenges and comes in at a remarkable no. 5 spot in the rankings. Hungary was one of the first European countries to implement computer programming classes into their education system, in both primary and secondary schools.
6 Japan
Japan is making great strides in AI (artificial intelligence). So, it’s no surprise when it comes to HackerRank’s AI challenges that Japan is the best country in the world. For instance, early this summer, the University of Tokyo was apparently able to save a woman’s life using AI to diagnose her cancer.
7 Taiwan
Scoring high in database, algorithm, functional programming and data structure challenges, Taiwan comes in at no. 7. The survey found that Python is the dominant language.
8 France
French programmers dominate C++ challenges, according to the HackerRank study. One reason for this is that France started providing programming classes in elementary schools in June 2014.
9 Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is dominant in shell scripting challenges, which makes the country stand at the no. 9 spot on the list of best programmers. They also ran second in mathematics challenges on HackerRank.
10 Italy
When it comes to HackerRank’s database and tutorial challenges, this country is specifically impressive as it ranks second in both those areas. It is not only HackerRank that thinks extremely high of Italy. Apple announced a new school for 600 programmers at The University of Napoli Federico II on the coast of Italy.
Source: Business Insider
i like it
Not exact..
Missed India and Pakistan
:DDDD I like your sense of humour, buddy!
India has a lot of programmers but most of the sucks :p Quality over quantity man!
actually they does not have hackers rank account
hackerrank’s half of accounts are indian programmers…but they rarely won in competitions…even hackerrank’s CEO is an indian…he recently announced that india and pakistan have lots of programmers but 90% of the programmers sucks..
Tamir, I agree…
lel most pakistanis and indian care about their degree instead of skills
XD: Already mentioned in the bigginning of the article. India has the rank 31st and US 28th. Please read before questioning. It makes things bitter. lol
Best for biginner
you also missed Romania, which has great programmers
Instead oh Hungary you may wanted to say Romania, we are better than hungaryans we even have a better internet infrastructure than they have, and we also own bitdefender antymalware system.
You missed Nigeria
Put it any way, any how next time
nigeria is a shithole with dumb blacks.
Black or white maybe Gray progragrammar remain programmer
Nigeria should be on that list.
U missed India.
You know all the CEO of big software company is Indian .
it’s about best programmers, not ceos. CEOs look after the business, they don’t code.
what is the position of India?
There is no spot for USA ???
By the way, CIA has everything to get into ir PC..
Taiwan is belong to China,please modify that
Try as you might, the Taiwanese consider themselves a different country and do business and politics as such. Merely calling them part of PR China is not going to make them so. Get a life, it is 72 years since Taiwan became politically separate, it is not about to become a totalitarian Communist state now. If PRC thinks they can brainwash their citizens into believing Taiwan is China then they failed 70 years ago. Both Hong Kong and Taiwan did better economically keeping themselves out of China, why would they go back in there ??!
no philippines?
For editors:
In Hungary we have terrible IT education.Somebody learn alone at home.
Yah Philippines bro
Nigeria Is Not There
you missed Somalia. we have good developers
They missed Somalia which has great developers
Oh no Nigeria?
you missed Egypt
Watch out for Nigeria
Were can i learn programing other then uni plz help me out
What about bangladesh tey should at no 3.. even indians are hiring bangladeshi developers internally, and exposing they have indian developers they are the culprit and should be bannned