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Interactive Problem Solving in the Classroom: Experiences with Turing Arena Light in Competitive Programming Education

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Turing Arena Light (TAlight) is a contest management system designed having in mind the needs of classroom teaching, rather than competitive programming contests. In TALight all problems are interactive by default. This means the contestant’s solution for a problem will always interact with the problem, in real time. In this paper, we discuss our experience of using Turing Arena light in the course of Competitive Programming, an optional course offered to students of various LTs and LMs at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona. The course is meant to teach the students how to solve algorithmic problems, by teaching them the most common algorithmic techniques and data structures, and how to actively use them to solve problems.

Source: OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS

DOI: 10.15388/ioi.2025.01

Authors: Giorgio AUDRITO, Luigi LAURA, Alessio ORLANDI, Dario OSTUNI, Romeo RIZZI, Luca VERSARI

Institutions: University of Turin, UniNettuno University, Google (United States), University of Milan, University of Verona

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4411502520

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