The ICPC is renowned as one of the largest competitive programming contests, but it is exclusively for university students. For school students, there is the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics), which is an individual, OI-style contest, unlike the ICPC, which is a team-based, CPC-style contest.
In the Arab and African regions, there is a teen version of the competition designed for school students. However, since other regions do not have a similar teen version, implementing an ICPC for teens on a global scale seems unlikely.
I'm curious to hear everyone’s opinion on this. Do you think it would be a good idea to have a teen version of the ICPC, or is it unnecessary? Personally, I’m not sure, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I think there should be an international-type contest for teens , atleast to open more oppurtunities. Especially for teens who want to excel in their competitive programming career as a whole. Yet, it wouldn't be anytime soon. Since, something like this needs alot of effort , sponsors and investments and actual people who would pay for the fees and everything so, i think maybe it could be possible but just not right now and i think the IOI is a good enough contest but of course a Teens ICPC sounds pretty cool in my opinion.
There is already IIOT where you can participate in teams in an OI style format while also having fun doing it with your friends and/or colleagues.
For more details on how to join, you can check us here and we would love to have as many countries onboard in order to have more contestants enjoy more training for IOI while also giving the chance to newcomers to learn from top contestants.
Most of the past problems can be found here and here
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Greedy you are, university students didn't cry before about ioi
Can we instead have more open contests please?
ICPC and IOI both are very annoying because they are only eligible for students of universities and schools. And I dislike both even though I am atill eligible for ICPC
No big company cares about competitive programming to sponsor. Even Meta may switch to AI in the future. CP is useless in the real world.
CP and ML competitions are not mutually exclusive. It's even the opposite, CP is a good benchmark for machine intelligence:
There are already leaderboards on huggingface evaluating offline model performance on CP tasks, online model participation in contests alongside humans is just a logical next step.
Are you even serious? Take a look at some of the successful AI startups, almost every single one has engineers who did competitive programming before.
The first AI software engineer Devin AI's founder is scott_wu, and the startup team has a total of 10 ioi gold medals.
Oh, yes, Devin the gpt wrapper. I'm not sure where you got your statistics from. Anyway, it doesn't change my point. You never get to solve these made up puzzles in the real world, so why should companies sponsor these events?
We need IOI for university students and ICPC for school students.I think it is great idea
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And also to be IOI for university students