Programming Contests as Complementary Activities in University Programming Courses

Julián Alarte, Carlos Galindo, Josep Silva

2024

Abstract

Programming contests are events whose history goes back 50 years, soon after the appearance of computers in universities, and are traditionally associated with undergraduate computer science students. However, contests tend to be independent events, non-academic, extraneous to computer science subjects such as Data Structures or Algorithmics. For this reason, these subjects rarely use programming contests or the kind of problems posed in them, either in or outside the classroom. This work documents the implementation of a programming contest in a pilot program in the lab sessions of Data Structures & Algorithms, including the full process, proposed improvements, and a small statistical analysis of the contest’s results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alarte J., Galindo C. and Silva J. (2024). Programming Contests as Complementary Activities in University Programming Courses. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-697-2, SciTePress, pages 613-617. DOI: 10.5220/0012734400003693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu24,
author={Julián Alarte and Carlos Galindo and Josep Silva},
title={Programming Contests as Complementary Activities in University Programming Courses},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2024},
pages={613-617},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012734400003693},
isbn={978-989-758-697-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - Programming Contests as Complementary Activities in University Programming Courses
SN - 978-989-758-697-2
AU - Alarte J.
AU - Galindo C.
AU - Silva J.
PY - 2024
SP - 613
EP - 617
DO - 10.5220/0012734400003693
PB - SciTePress