The sixth conference "OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS" (Montichiari, Italy, September 25 and 27, 2012)
This is the sixth OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS conference organized during the IOI2012 in Montichiari, Italy.
All papers are published in the journal OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS.
PRESENTATIONS Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10.00-10.30 G. AUDRITO, G.B. DEMO, E. GIOVANNETTI. The role of contests in changing informatics education: a local view 10.30-10.45 F. ALMEIDA, V. BLANCO PÉREZ et al. An experience on the organization of the first Spanish parallel programming contest 10.45-11.00 F. DOGBEY. Learning computer programming as an extra curriculum activity, the challenges 11.00-11.30 V. BOŽA, M. FORIŠEK. FCL-STL, a generics-based template library for FreePascal 12.00-12.15 A. ILIC, A. ILIC. IOI Training and Serbian competitions in informatics 12.15-12.45 S. HALIM, Z.C. KOH, V.B.H. LOH, F. HALIM. Learning algorithms with unified and interactive web-based visualization 12.45-13.00 J.R. JANALIEVA. Conducting off-line informatics olympiads with individual tasks 13.00-13.30 M. HIRON, L. FÉVRIER. A Self-paced learning platform to teach programming and algorithms 13.30-13.45 E. KELEVEDJIEV, Z. DZHENKOVA. Competitions’ tasks in informatics for the “pre-master” group of school students 13.45-14.00 P.S. PANKOV, K.A. BARYSHNIKOV. Tasks of a priori unbounded complexity Thursday, September 27, 2012 10.00-10.30 D. GINAT. Insight tasks for examing student illuminations 10.30-10.45 W. van der VEGT. Theoretical tasks on algorithms; two small examples 10.45-11.00 S. MAGGIOLO, G. MASCELLANI. Introducing CMS: a contest management system 11.00-11.30 M. MAREŠ, B. BLACKHAM. A new contest sandbox 12.00-12.15 E. ZUR, T. BENAYA, O. BECKER, D. GINAT. Israel: The regional competition and teacher involvement 12.15-12.30 J. URBANČIČ, M. TRAMPUŠ. Putka – a web application in support of computer programming education 12.30-13.00 S. COMBÉFIS, V. le CLÉMENT de SAINT-MARCQ. Teaching programming and algorithm design with Pythia, a web-based learning platform 13.00-14.00 Panel discussion on Teaching and Learning Informatics for school (each 4-5 min.) Ahto Truu. Estonia to teach programming in schools from age 6 Margot Phillipps. Teaching CS in New Zealand Kanchit Malaivongs. CS at high schools in Thailand Seiichi Tani. CS Unplugged in Japan Noel Kalicharan. About Teaching CS in Trinidad & Tobago Mile Jovanov. Informatics in Macedonian schools: the Upgrade Wolfgang Pohl. CS competitions: Do they fit modern CS high school curricula? Should they?