Observations on teamwork strategies in the ACM international collegiate programming contest

Amraii, Saman Amirpour

doi:10.1145/1349332.1349341

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“…In the 1970s the first competitive programming events occured and the term "hacker" was loosely applied to anyone with basic computing knowledge (Saman, 2007). In the 1980s academic conferences such as IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and USENIX Security Symposium began as a forum for computer security research.…”

Section: History Of Cyber Competitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cybercompetitions: A survey of competitions, tools, and systems to support cybersecurity education

Balon

Baggili

2023

Educ Inf Technol

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Over the last decade, industry and academia have worked towards raising students' interests in cybersecurity through game-like competitions to fill a shortfall of cybersecurity professionals. Rising interest in video games in combination with gamification techniques make learning fun, easy, and addictive. It is crucial that cybersecurity curricula enhance and expose cybersecurity education to a diversified student body to meet workforce demands. Gamification through cybercompetitions is one method to achieve that. With a vast list of options for competition type, focus areas, learning outcomes, and participant experience levels we need to systematize knowledge of attributes that ameliorate cybercompetitions. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and global lock-downs, competition hosts scrambled to move platforms from local to online infrastructure due to poor interoperability between competition software. We derive a list of takeaways including the lack of interoperability between state-of-the-art competition systems, breaking the high knowledge barrier to participate, addressing competition type diversity, then suggest potential solutions and research questions moving forward. Our paper aims to systematize cybersecurity, access control, and programming competitions by surveying the history of these events. We explore the types of competitions that have been hosted and categorize them based on focus areas related to the InfoSEC Color Wheel. We then explore state-of-the-art technologies that enable these types of competitions, and finally, present our takeaways.

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Section: History Of Cyber Competitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cybercompetitions: A survey of competitions, tools, and systems to support cybersecurity education

Balon

Baggili

2023

Educ Inf Technol

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“…The contest is similar to the prestigious ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) [1]. However, intending to strengthen our first-year students' coding ability in Python and cultivate a sense of independent learning among them, our contest is individually based, in which contestants are not allowed to contact or communicate with others.…”

Section: Framework Of Python Programming Contestmentioning

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“…Examples of popular programming contests and formats can be referred to as CodeChef [5], HackerRank [11], Facebook Meta Hacker Cup [9], Google Code Jam [10] and International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) [1], previously organised by association for computing machinery (ACM) and called ACM-ICPC (1977−2017]). Zinovieva et al [33] compared several online programming platforms to support teaching computer science disciplines concerning different learning outcomes and presented an example using Hack-erRank [11] for the assignments of their programming courses.…”

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Competitive programming in computational thinking and problem solving education

Yuen

Liu

Leong

2023

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Building practical programming competency requires a long-lasting journey of discovery, trial and error, learning and improvement. This article presents essential findings of a case study of a Python programming contest with an automatic judgement system for Competitive Programming training extending the learning experiences for students in an introductory course, computational thinking and problem-solving. The benefits and challenges are discussed. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, a hybrid model of the contest was adopted, that is, some students participated in the contest on-site, while others participated remotely. To alleviate human effort in judging the submissions, the DOMjudge platform, a web-based automatic judgement system, has been deployed as an online automatic judgement system and contest management in competitive programming. The implementation roadmap and framework were provided. The contest problems and contestants' performances were discussed. Not many junior contestants could solve at least one problem(s), and competitive computing training should be offered if the students are keen on open competitions. An empirical study was conducted to evaluate the student feedback after the contest. Preliminary results revealed that the contest offering the chance to stimulate student learning interests could enhance their independent learning, innovative thinking and problem-solving skills, and could thus lead to the overall benefits of the learning experiences, which further encourage them to participate in future contests to improve their learning and therefore enhance their employability. Employers often treasure student experiences in competitive programming events, like association for computing machinery programming contests, Google Code Jam or Microsoft Imagine Cup. Sharp vision requiring skills to tackle unseen problems within a short period is also instrumental to students planning for graduate school.

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“… Annotation : We advertised the annotation task with remuneration at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Out of 37 applications, we shortlisted 14 students based on their previous participation in top coding competitions, such as ICPC 69 (one of the students was ICPC 2020 world finalist), and various hackathons, including CodeChef and TopCoder 70 . We design a set of 27 annotation labels (Table A1) which helped to characterize a comment based on the parameters of comment quality.…”

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Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance

Majumdar

Bansal

Das

et al. 2022

J Software Evolu Process

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Approaches to evaluate comments based on whether they increase code comprehensibility for software maintenance tasks are important, but largely missing. We propose Comment Probe for automated classification and quality evaluation of code comments of C codebases based on how they can help to understand existing code. We conduct surveys and document developers' perceptions on the type of comments that prove useful to maintaining software in the form of comment categories. A total of 20,206 comments have been collected from open‐source Github projects and annotated with assistance from industry experts. We develop features to semantically analyze comments to locate concepts related to categories of usefulness. Additionally, features based on code and comment correlation are designed to infer whether the comment is also consistent and not superfluous. Using neural networks, comments are classified as useful, partially useful, and not useful with precision and recall scores of 86.27% and 86.42%, respectively. The proposed framework for comment quality evaluation incorporates industry practices and adds significant value to companies wanting to formulate better code commenting strategies. Furthermore, large codebases can be de‐cluttered by removing comments not helpful in maintaining code.

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Observations on teamwork strategies in the ACM international collegiate programming contest

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Cybercompetitions: A survey of competitions, tools, and systems to support cybersecurity education

Cybercompetitions: A survey of competitions, tools, and systems to support cybersecurity education

Competitive programming in computational thinking and problem solving education

Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance

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