The IOI is (not) a science olympiad

Informatics in Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-159

  Verhoeff, Tom ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer science; Informatics competitions; Programming contests

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646058884     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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