Registrations for Google Code Jam 2011 open

Technology giant Google has announced that the registrations for the annual Google Code Jam 2011 are open from Wednesday.

Google Code Jam is a programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve increasingly complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you compete in the programming language and development environment of your choice, Bartholomew Furrow, Software Engineer, Google Code Jam wrote on the official blog post.

The competition consists of four online rounds, coding will begin on May 6 with our qualification round, where competitors will have as much as a day to plan their approach to our first few problems. From there, the contest heats up quickly: the remaining contestants will engage in several two-and-a-half hour rounds, wrangling each time with three to four algorithmic problems that range in difficulty from simple to fiendish, Furrow wrote.

If the aspirants reach one of the top 25 competitors, the company will bring them to Tokyo office to spar against your fellow coders. In the end, only one person will bring home the $10,000 top prize-and the title of Code Jam Champion.