Computer science olympiad: exploring computer science through competition
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...The most famous informal way to introduce informatics are contests and olympiads on programming [13, 14]....
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...Key reasons why university teachers use competitions when they are teaching students to program include: testing students’ ability, design, understanding and implementation [24]; students strengthening their basic programming skills and insight into practical problems [60, 86]; learning effective teamwork and communication [18, 24, 60]; and stimulating student enthusiasm....
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...Much has been written about helping the students who struggle with learning to program [6, 19, 20, 40, 55, 61, 81 , 85, 117, 118, 124, 125]....
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...Competition can also be the spur that pushes a very ordinary student to achieve much more and it is a fact that a competition win will greatly enhance a new graduates’ CV. The role and value of competitions as a component of student learning has been recognized in a variety of contexts [18, 81 , 94, 140]....
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