Contrary to popular belief, programmers have a life, though mostly bound to their computers. One of the many incentives that make it so is programming competitions.

Idea. Leadership. Inspiration.The words above are, no doubt, heard of and spoken about a lot in current times. Nowadays we are seeing a generation of Bangladeshis marking their excellence in fields of science, education, entrepreneurship, arts – both in and outside our borders. To be born with qualities as such is a blessing, to hone them is no easy task.

"I don't know if it's because of the time (last year of high school) I shifted to Canada, it was really hard for me to make friends. It took me a few months to find people I actually liked and who liked me back and wanted to be friends," says Moneesha R Kalamder, who immigrated to Canada in her teens.

If you think your university courses can prepare you for jobs, you're quite not there yet. It's one thing to ace academics and another thing to step out into the work field. You have to go the extra mile to get yourself ready and we are happy to help.

How many of us willingly wake up at crack of dawn? On weekends and holidays, by the time we wake up, it's almost high noon, sometimes even after. We stay up late, rummaging through social media's metaphorical undergarments drawer, finding things weirder and weirder than we could have ever hoped for, only to curse ourselves the next day.

Over the course of the past decade, European football has exploded. The big European clubs have grown into global enterprises...

As the symphony reaches its illuminating ZENITH AND WE WILL KNOW, AND WE WILL FEEL THAT THIS MOMENT IS OURS TO LIVE FOR

I love history and most what I know, I learned from video games like Age of Empires. And that's funny because history will be twisted in service of better gameplay. What a game can do, however, is use its systems to teach you enough to get you interested in learning more. At times conveying the spirit of an age is a more effective deed than getting the details exactly right, and there is no more immersive medium than the video game.Now, local history is tragically unrepresented in games. We have two Bangladeshi-made shooter titles that deal with our Liberation War; last year's Heroes of 71 and 2004's Arunodoyer Agnishikha. From way out of left comes Paradox Interactive with Crusader Kings 2, which has been expanded to include Bengali characters. It is much that these games exist, but we can do so much more. So here's a list from the SHOUT team of possible ideas for historical games set in Amader Shonar Bangla.

Being in a rock band is probably one of the few fantasies everyone has had at some point in their lives.

The social sciences have been a popular major in undergrad and postgrad levels for decades, levelling with engineering and medicine.

We've had almost too many modern takes on Cinderella and the Stockholm syndrome that is Beauty and the Beast, with many other immensely popular fairytales going unnoticed. So we bring you a cornucopia of some classic fairy tales with makeovers that place them in the world of today.

Farheen no longer tried to hide her ruined mascara. That was only one of the innumerable things her brother had done wrong, trifling in comparison to some of the offences. A piano lay in the corner, covered in dust.

The month of February brings a number of events, and each of those is important to different people for different reasons. February is my favourite month of the year not because I would like to receive gifts on Valentines' Day or because I am very keen on the arrival of spring; not even because my little brother's birthday falls in this month. February is the best time of the year because of Ekushey Boi Mela.

“Love Happens” isn't just a 2009 rom-com but it's also the general mindset of people on the topic of love. Love, more often than not, is perceived as something that will magically and fatefully appear once you meet the right person, say the right things, and share the same feelings.

On a sunny March morning in 1992, the citizens of Bangladesh would lay their eyes on the very first issue of Rising Stars, the soon-to-be sensation, and the first youth publication of its kind. This occasion would become momentous in many ways as Rising Stars would go on to become as much a part of the mainstream youth culture in Bangladesh as blue jeans.

The overwhelming desire to see the unseen and know the unknown is latent inside every individual.

If you're into some particular type of extracurricular activity or have a specific interest, it's best to join a club at your school that can help you further develop that interest. But what if your school doesn't have the club you want? You'll then have to be the founder of such a club; this article will help you do that.

At a time when climate change is closely related to the means of energy used, renewable energy shows promise to be the solution.

Do you ever walk down the street and wonder how that extremely ordinary-looking man's day was? Do you wonder what his biggest struggle is right now or what advice he would like to give a large group of people?

What were you up to last weekend? Did you miss out on the amazing Unmad-JCC Comic Con 2015? If you did, all we can do now is tell you how amazing it was.