Paper Info
Title
An analysis of team performance in high school programming contests
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2656450.2656469
SIGITE
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer science education,high school,programming contest
Teamwork,CONTEST,Knowledge management,Engineering,Java,Python (programming language)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stoney Jackson17610.18
Heidi Jc Ellis214127.53
Robert Crouse300.34