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Yeah. At the high school and college level, the Olympiads for math and CS are pretty analogous. But there's really popular semi-formal coding contests which ex
by sir_kin 7y ago
Yeah.
At the high school and college level, the Olympiads for math and CS are pretty analogous. But there's really popular semi-formal coding contests which exist outside academia which don't really have a math equivalent.
I'd say math contests are more popular among high schoolers, and semi-formal coding contests more popular among college students.
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) [https://artofproblemsolving.com/ https://artofproblemsolving.com/] is a really good resource, and there's a very healthy online community.
They're also similar in how olympiads are different from the "real thing" (TM).
Academia.SE discussion about this [https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86451/does-the-international-math-olympiad-help-research-mathematics/86489 https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86451/does-the-...]
As someone who did math olympiads in high school, my 2 cents is that they're a fantastic way to learn how to solve and approach problems and gain intuition. And I'd say intuition mainly comes from solving problems.