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Coding as Sport.

The article explains how programming competitions help and reward those who excel in sport coding. Topics discussed are the opportunity for participants to benchmark their progress and showcase their skills to prospective employers at coding contests, gender gap in coding competitions, and the impor...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 5; pp. 32 - 34
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, Keith
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2016
Subjects:
Computer programming
Computer programmers
Computer science competitions
Time management
Contests
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article explains how programming competitions help and reward those who excel in sport coding. Topics discussed are the opportunity for participants to benchmark their progress and showcase their skills to prospective employers at coding contests, gender gap in coding competitions, and the importance of collaborative approach, efficiency and time management to completing a coding project.