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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

SESSION: Object-oriented issues table of contents

Pages: 105 - 109

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-798-2

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Authors

Steven K. Andrianoff	Saint Bonaventure University
Dalton R. Hunkins	Saint Bonaventure University
David B. Levine	Saint Bonaventure University

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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CITED BY 2

	Gordon Cormack , Ian Munro , Troy Vasiga , Graeme Kemkes, Structure, scoring and purpose of computing competitions, Informatics in education, v.5 n.1, p.15-36, January 2006
	Andrew Trotman , Chris Handley, Programming contest strategy, Computers & Education, v.50 n.3, p.821-837, April, 2008