98-023 Student Taught Courses (StuCo):Start Playing with Competitive Programming Gently

3 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Competitive programming CP is commonly referred to as a mind sport like chess, puzzles, etc. that requires participants to give solutions to specific problems under certain constraints and allotted time. It is useful because it not only helps players improve their problem solving ability and coding skills but also opens many career opportunities as big companies such as Google, Microsoft, etc. pay close attention to the CP community and recruit top players. Amazing as it is, however, getting started with the field can be difficult. Although Carnegie Mellon University currently offers two courses to introduce students to CP 15195 and 15295, These courses concentrate intensively on the most common algorithms and introducing theoretical concepts but overlook more practical aspects useful tricks, good implementation style, etc. Therefore, we propose a StuCo course to fill in this gap.

Prerequisites: none listed

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