Different approaches for making the initial selection of talented students in programming competitions

Journal
Olympiads in Informatics
Date Issued
2015-07-10
Author(s)
Kostadinov, Bojan
Risteska Stojkoska, Biljana
Abstract
Competitions in informatics are one of the most useful ways of engaging pupils to the
field of computer science. Many national and international competitions are carried out each year,
with the organizers of each of them attempting to reach out to as many potential students as possible. In this paper, we analyse several different contest types, how each of them aids to promote
computer science by engaging students in competitions, and how they can help provide the initial
selection of talented students for the later stages of the competitions. Based on that, we propose
seven criteria for the classification of the contests. Further we present our rich experience in the
organization of Macedonian contests. Finally, we propose different approaches for making the
initial selection of talented students in programming competitions and discuss ways for alleviating some of the issues with standard contests, for example enabling feedback and introducing
difficulty divisions.
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programming contests,...

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