Adding objects to the traditional ACM programming contest

Authors:
Steven K. Andrianoff;Dalton R. Hunkins;David B. Levine
Affiliations:
Saint Bonaventure University;Saint Bonaventure University;Saint Bonaventure University
Venue:
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2004

Citing 0
Cited 3

A testing-based framework for programming contests

eclipse '03 Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
Structure, scoring and purpose of computing competitions

Informatics in education
Programming contest strategy

Computers & Education

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Programming contests have a long established role as co-curricular activities. But as programming methodology has changed, the programming contest problems have not reflected these changes. In this paper, we describe a way to modernize the traditional ACM-style contest while preserving the problem solving aspects. We do so by introducing a new type of problem that requires that solutions interact with pre-defined classes. We discuss the effects of this change on a contest conducted for high school students.