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What is High School Programming Competition about?

was a Java-based challenge that encouraged high school students to discover the fun in computer science and information technology. In its sixth year, the CASCON High School Programming Competition, CodeSpy, attracted many schools from across the Greater Toronto region. In addition to the competition, two hands-on workshops were held concurrently for high school computer science educators by Troy Vasiga, of the University of Waterloo and Steve Engels, of the University of Toronto. Attendees developed and implemented interesting exercises to take with them back to the classroom. CodeSpy, the Java Challenge, was run in a bracket tournament, with each team playing at least three matches. The competition was implemented as an Eclipse plugin, developed using Eclipse's built-in Plugin Development Editor. The competition encouraged high school students to use the open-source Eclipse Integrated Development Environment to program in Java, as well as to code to a given Application Programming Interface (API) defined in the CodeSpy environment. A "prologue" version of the tournament was available for students to practice in September, but was not required for the actual competition, which bui

Author

Victor Zhang; Michael Lin; Brenda Chow

Publisher

ACM Press

Published

2010

Language

EN