Contesting (Panel Discussion)
John R. Metzner · 1979
Contest activity can be staged in a wide variety of ways and the features of a contest design can be drawn from wide spectra of possibilities. The participants can be brought together for the contest or can stay home and send their programs to the contest; they can be from any level of expertise from high school student to professional programmer. A contest can reward producing a solution program in the shortest time or can be scored on bases like originality and program quality; it can focus upon any aspect of the programming process from algorithm synthesis to debugging or program modification.