Abstract The International Olympiad in Informatics is a worldwide contest for high school
students, with a strong focus on creativity and ingenuity in algorithm design. Here we …

Like many other countries, Australia holds live-in schools to train and select students for the
International Olympiad in Informatics. Here we discuss some of the more interesting events …

We show how Item Response Theory (IRT) can be used to define a new type of rating
system, one that is especially suitable for programming competitions (and other types of …

Programming contests should be capable of being appealing to both the contestants and the
general public. We feel that the use of graphical user interfaces and computer graphics …

Either a task in informatics reflects any image in mind or not; references (hints) to any reality
can take place in the task. This reality can relate to local circumstances, the host town, the …

One major area of software development that is mostly neglected by current computer
science contests is software testing. The only systematic exception to this rule known to us is …

Benjamin Burton is the Australian team leader for the International Olympiad in Informatics,
and has directed the Australian training programme for the past eight years. He also has a …

Informatics contests for high school and undergraduate students is one of the fastest
expanding extra-curricula activity. There is a large community of national, regional …

Lithuanian Informatics Olympiad (LIO) is a programming (algorithmic) competition for
students in secondary education where grading is done automatically following international …

Contribution-We present the results of the development and implementation of an extra-
curricular process to assist university students to develop skills in data analysis. We offered …