JavaRush post competition: results

The JavaRush team is in touch, and we are pleased to inform you that we have finally decided on the winners. It was not easy to do this, because there were a lot of articles, and among them there were useful, funny, informative, inspiring... Very different, and it was quite difficult to compare them with each other. Therefore, we decided that in some categories there will be more than one winner. We hope this doesn't upset anyone :). Our choice is largely subjective, so don’t be upset or offended if you suddenly didn’t see your article among the winners. Here are the shortlists and winners:

Nomination "The very beginning"

Shortlist:

1. Comments in Java: not everything is so simple
2. Assignment and Initialization in Java
3. Return Statement in Java
4. Primitive types in Java: They are not that primitive
5. Keyword this {in examples}
6. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Escaping characters in Java
7. Break statement in Java
8. Branching in the program. Conditional operator

Winners:

We found the most useful articles 4, 5 and 7 (“Primitive data types”, “The this keyword” and “The break statement in Java”). Congratulations to the authors - Viacheslav and Dmitry Denisov and ilovesky Grand Prix: article "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Escaping characters in Java" (author Darth Vader , please wait for a message from the administration in a personal message).

Nomination: “Know your IDE”

Shortlist:

1. Idea hot keys
2. IntelliJ IDEA User Guide: Keyboard Shortcuts
3. IntelliJ IDEA and Debug: Not diving, but snorkeling
4. IntelliJ IDEA User Guide: Version Control Basics

Winner:

Article 1 and its author Viktor Sergeev , who can now be called a “twice winner”, since he has already won our competition.

Nomination "attention to detail"

Shortlist:

1. [Competition] Classes, types of nested classes with examples
2. JUnit part I
3. [Competition] XML Basics for Java Programmer - Part 1 of 3

Winners:

Actually, everyone who was shortlisted won in this category, since both users, Yaroslav and Evgeniy Grodno, approached the issue thoroughly and prepared very interesting articles and even entire series of articles. Congratulations!

Nomination "Java Pro"

Shortlist:

1. Introduction to the Jackson Framework
2. Design Patterns in Java [Part 2]
3. Patterns and Singleton - for everyone who encountered them for the first time
4. Java functional interfaces
5. Continuous Integration
6. Code Coverage
7. Markdown
8. Software development methodologies
9. The Socket and ServerSocket classes, or “Hello, server? Can you hear me?"
10. Best Java EE Books

Winners:

Everyone did a good job in this category, and this is where it was difficult to choose the winners. However, we have identified two participants. This is Nikita with his series of thorough and useful articles (5-7) and Sergey Simonov (9), who wrote a cool article about the Socket and ServerSocket classes.

Nomination "Personal Story"

• Review of employing companies in the participant’s city (strictly not advertising!);
• Interview experience;
• An article about why you decided to become a developer;
• A funny incident while learning JavaRush/during employment/at work;
• Success/employment history;
• What are the different positions in IT?
• Description of your personal project (implementation, problems, success).

Shortlist:

1. ...From the notes of a sophomore who is rejected
2. My magical world of programming!
3. About funny things from my activities in IT
4. Interview experience
5. A funny incident from the life of a programmer
6. catch a wave
7. A success story or how easy it is to get lost in our complex world
8. Analysis of a typical test task for a developer position

Winners:

Articles numbered 8 and 4. Congratulations to the authors - Galina (article about a QA interview with examples) and Ivan Kirsanov (inspiring success story). Congratulations to both authors!

Nomination "out of nomination"

Shortlist:

1. Pomodoro technique
2. Think like a mathematician
3. How classes are loaded into the JVM
4. Implementing bubble sort in Java

Winners:

We found article number 3 about loading classes in the JVM very interesting. Author - Alexandr Zimin , as well as an article about the Pomodoro technique, in which Antoni described the technique and gave examples of applications that help follow this technique. Congratulations to everyone!

Community Choice Award

In this nomination, we decided to honor the participant who wrote four thorough articles that were liked by the majority of the participants in our groups: Analysis of a typical test task for a developer position The best Java EE books A curious incident in the life of a programmer Review of employing companies (St. Petersburg, April 2018) Congratulations to their author - Uniges .

To be continued

We sincerely congratulate the winners, and we ask those who did not win not to be upset. We think that writing articles about programming is in any case useful for future developers. Moreover, we repeat, our conclusions are subjective.

In total, books receive:

• Viacheslav
• Dmitry Denisov
• ilovesky
• Victor Sergeev
• Yaroslav
• Evgeniy Grodno
• Nikita
• Sergey Simonov
• Galina
• Ivan Kirsanov
• Alexandr Zimin
• Anthony
• Uniges

How the winners can receive their well-deserved prize:

1. Go to the "Administration" section

2. Please include the following information in your message:

   • Real name
   • Postal address to which to send the prize (with country and city)
   • Phone number to contact you
   • The book you most want to receive (from the list in this topic ).