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Yet, Russia consistently dominates programming competitions, which strongly suggests that a multiple choice exam may not actually be representative of real worl
by yogthos 8y ago
Yet, Russia consistently dominates programming competitions, which strongly suggests that a multiple choice exam may not actually be representative of real world skills
https://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/russian-students-dominate-at-the-computer-programming-olympics-and-american-computer-science-students-are-unsurprised/ https://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/russian-students-dominate-a...
- dh5 8y agoAre you saying programming competitions are representative of "real world skills"? There's certainly a correlation in the same way the exam is but you'd be hard-pressed to say more than that.
- yogthos 8y agoProgramming competitions demonstrate problem solving skills a lot better than a multiple choice exam if you ask me.
- blocked_again 8y agoBut questions asked in interviews of tech companies are similar to programming competitions than mcqs.
- nickm12 8y agoProgramming competitions are to programming as fencing is to sword-fighting. I'm not trying to denegrate people who compete in programming competitions—they require hard work and talent like any competition, but it is a very specific set of skills that are developed which are different from real-world programming.
- somehnreader 8y agoThats also true for multiple choice tests as opposed to real-world programming.
- jldugger 8y agoOr that programming competitions don't represent real world programming either.