What is Codechef?
Codechef is an online competitive programming platform created in 2009. It brings together programmers from across the world to solve coding problems and challenges. Codechef aims to provide a place for programmers to enhance their coding skills.
On Codechef, registered participants can participate in various programming contests and submit solutions to coding problems across multiple programming languages like C++, Java, Python etc. Performance and rankings incentivize members to constantly improve their coding abilities. There are monthly cooking contests for those new to competitive coding as well regular contests for experienced coders.
Apart from contests, Codechef has a practice section consisting of over 15000 questions across difficulty levels - school, easy, medium, hard and challenge. Members can code solutions, test against multiple test cases and post questions for community assistance. There is also a Discuss section for peer interaction through forums.
Overall, Codechef serves as a gamified platform for encouraging coders to be better at programming with regular contests, coding problems archive and peer community.
LeetCode, Codewars, Edabit, HackerRank, Codier, Coderbyte, Topcoder, CodeSignal, Codeforces, Binary Search, DMOJ, Spoj are some alternatives to Codechef.