The international collegiate programming contest(1) is an annual, multi-tier competition held amongst college students on a global scale, with world championships every year. Last year alone, around fifty thousand stu...
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The international collegiate programming contest(1) is an annual, multi-tier competition held amongst college students on a global scale, with world championships every year. Last year alone, around fifty thousand students from three thousand universities participated in ICPC regional competitions. Because of its significant size involving a lot of talent and skillful people, multiple stakeholders are interested in the competition. Each of the competitions results in scoreboards, containing valuable data about the performance of teams. This data however is, up till now, never collected and stored in an open and free repository. The ICPC does keep track of the basic information such as teams' names and their final scores, but more detailed information has remained scattered across the internet. This paper describes the data collected and cleaned from the European, Latin-American, North American, South Pacific and World Finals from 2012 to 2018, opening up research opportunities for an in-depth look into the programming competitions. (c) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.
Three programming team members from the University of Central Florida traveled across the world to compete in the ACM international collegiate programming contest World Finals, ultimately earning the bronze medal. Tea...
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Three programming team members from the University of Central Florida traveled across the world to compete in the ACM international collegiate programming contest World Finals, ultimately earning the bronze medal. Team member Timothy Buzzelli reflects on his World Finals journey and the training and guidance that led to victory.
Background, Motivation and Objective With regard to engineering, there have been serious concerns about the employability of Indian graduates. There are alarming statistics in a NASSCOM report, which estimates that, o...
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Background, Motivation and Objective With regard to engineering, there have been serious concerns about the employability of Indian graduates. There are alarming statistics in a NASSCOM report, which estimates that, of the 3 million joining the IT workforce, only twenty five percent of graduates with engineering background are employable. The figures are grave in the context of graduates from sciences and humanities, which is less than fifteen percent. Aspiring Minds has been administering a computer-based test called AMCAT to lakhs of students in 650+ engineering institutions measure employability of technical graduates. This considers parameters like Business Communication & English, Logical & Numerical skills, analytical & problem-resolution skills and coding. The results are a revelation, 47% of graduates cannot be employed in any domain or sector of the knowledge economy. 17.91%, 3.67% and 40.57% are the employability figures for software services, software products and BPO. Only 3.84% graduates are start-up ready and 6.56% are design job ready and the same trend for other core engineering jobs. There is an urgent need to improve employability of our engineering graduates. This calls for lateral thinking and out-of-the-box initiatives such as experiential learning programs and competitive programming; implementations of which we explore in a top-ranking private university as a case study. Statement of Contribution/Methods The case study of implementation of initiatives in experiential learning programs and competitive programming in a private university is highlighted. An Experiential learning program titled Live-in-Labs as part of the curriculum is explored. This program is student-centric, learner-centric, participatory and hands-on and they provide students an avenue to apply their acquired engineering knowledge, concepts and skills and deploy on a real-time basis in India’s villages. It’s Course Outcomes (CO) such as human-centered design concepts to docume
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