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Tutorial Organizing Donald Bagert Dept. of Computer Science Texas Tech University P. O. Box 43104 Lubbock TX 79409-3104 bagert@cs.coe.ttu .edu a Team for the ACM Programming Contest Barbara Boucher Owens Computer Science St. Edward ™s University 3001 S. Congress Avenue Austin TX 78704 owens@acad. stedwards.edu Participation in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest has steadily grown Purpose: over the past several years, to the point where nearly 600 teams from all over the world annually enter the sixteen regional competitions. How institutions prepare teams for the regional contests vary flom school to school; only in the last few years have universities started to formally exchange information concerning their organizational methods. This tutorial discusses how it is done at two specific universities. There are always benefits from healthy competition in all fields. In particular, preparing and participating in an event such as an ACM Regional Contest should first and foremost be a learning experience which contributes to the growth of all individuals involved. Specifically, organizing for and competing in a programming contest can greatly improve the students ™ problem solving skills, their ability to communicate, their capabilities in working test data, among other things. Target Audience: The tutorial within a small team, and their capacity to develop and use is intended both for schools who have not previously competed but are considering doing so, and for institutions currently participating who wish to improve the quality of their preparations for the contest. Audience participation will be encouraged. Topics to be covered: q q q q q q q q q q Recruiting participants practices Using contest practice as a learning tool Organizing and conducting Formulating test data strengths communication contest itself at other institutions The contest is about problem solving, not programming Identi@ing individual Emphasizing teamwork, Learning Alternative and egoless programming Gathering resourceskesource from the regional methods: management experiences Materials . q q to be provided: A week-by-week outline of regional contest practice at Texas Tech papers written by St. Edward ™s students A guide to obtaining practice problems Excerpts from post-contest

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Organizing a team for the ACM programming contest (abstract)

Bagert, Donald; Owens, Barbara Boucher
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin , Volume 27 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 15, 1995

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