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Does ACM ICPC has to do anything with computer science skills? Because that competetion is dominated by Russian and Asian students and US universities come nowh
by blocked_again 8y ago
Does ACM ICPC has to do anything with computer science skills? Because that competetion is dominated by Russian and Asian students and US universities come nowhere close.
https://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/results https://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/results
Google Summer of Code on the other hand is dominated by Indian Students.
TLDR: If it's a level playing field I don't think US students would be in front of other countries.
- qntty 8y agoMore likely, the smartest students in each country work on things that have landed older students good jobs. In US, that means preparing for interviews at big tech companies. In Russia and India, it means something different. Averages in a country don't really say much about the smartest students in that country anyway. It seems likely that the smartest students in China, India and the US are similarly gifted. If you look at the average high school student in the US, you might conclude that Americans are pretty stupid, but the averages are brought down by the obscene amount of educational inequality in the US. American CS students aren't so affected by this because they mostly come from the "good" schools.