Three decades ago high school computing was highly consistent with academic and
professional world. This consistency was destroyed when school curricula began to …

Programming education and contests have introduced software to help evaluation by
executing submitted taskwork. We present the notion of a task package as a unit for …

Education process is connected with computers in different ways. Therefore, it is necessary
to find proper place for computers in this process. One way to attract young people is using …

Abstract The 12-year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines by the Ministry of Education in
Taiwan includes learning performances related to computational thinking and programming …

Informatics competitions offer a motivating way to introduce informatics concepts to students
and to find new talents. There are many different competitions in the field of informatics with …

Each year a wealth of informatics olympiads are held worldwide at national, regional and
international levels, all of which require engaging and challenging tasks that have not been …

Programming contests are generally intended to popularize computer science, particularly
algorithmic thinking and programming skills. However, such contests are addressed to a …

The competition tasks at the International Olympiad in Informatics have evolved over its 20-
year history. We distinguish three periods in this evolution and highlight it from various …

In this paper we give a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the difficulty of
programming contests in past years. We analyze task topics in past competition tasks, and …

This paper presents the organization of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics, together with
tasks preparation process and evaluation. It is a result of over 14 years of experience in …