NDLI: An analysis of team performance in high school programming contests

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Jackson, Stoney Ellis, Heidi J.C. Crouse, Robert
Abstract	Programming contests are used by educational institutions as a way to attract high school students to computing degrees. While there has been some analysis of the artifacts and process of programming contests including complexity of algorithms and the impact of teamwork strategies on team success, there has been little work investigating the impact of programming language and team submission pattern on team performance. This paper presents the results of an analysis of five years of contest results for the Western New England University high school programming contest. The analysis looks at the frequency of submissions, types of errors that occurred, and languages used by winning teams. Results appear to indicate that Python and Java have the highest success rate and that the most frequent type of error is incorrect output.
Starting Page	27
Ending Page	32
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450326865
DOI	10.1145/2656450.2656469
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-10-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Programming contest High school
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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An analysis of team performance in high school programming contests