Programming as a Sport -- What Do You Mean?
summary
Overview of competitive programming: contests give word problems whose solutions are implemented as programs judged by correctness via black-box test cases and by time and memory limits, with partial scoring in IOI-style rounds and ICPC/IEEE Xtreme as team events ranked by tasks solved then cumulative time. Variants include output-only judges (IPSC, Project Euler), Topcoder’s post-submit hacking/challenge phase, obfuscated and underhanded C contests, online platforms like Codeforces and Codeforces/Topcoder/Codeforces (and Kaggle for data science) and company-sponsored qualifiers. Audio issues noted on the recording.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:48How Do You Turn an Intellectual Activity like Programming into a Competition
- 5:03Correctness
- 19:13C Oriented Programming Competitions
- 22:13Topcoder
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