A competitive programming approach to a university introductory algorithms course

A. Laaksonen

doi:10.15388/ioi.2017.14

A competitive programming approach to a university introductory algorithms course

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Abstract

This paper is based on our experiences on teaching a university introductory algorithms course using ideas from competitive programming. The problems are solved using a real programming language and automatically tested using a set of test cases. Like in programming contests, there are no hints and well-known problems are not used. The purpose of such problems, compared to traditional problems, is to better improve the problem solving skills of the students. © 2017 IOI, Vilnius University.

Original language	English
Journal	Olympiads in Informatics
Volume	11
Pages (from-to)	87-92
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1822-7732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15388/ioi.2017.14
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Conference of International Conference Joint with the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI 2017 - Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Duration: 28 Jul 2017 → 4 Aug 2017 http://ioi2017.org/

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113 Computer and information sciences

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