AskHN: Why are chinese getting good at programming contests?

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by ideamonk • 18 years ago

4 5 18 years ago

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Day by day I'm observing chinese to be doing very well at programming contests... what has been responsible for such a change ?

alaskamiller• 18 years ago

They now have English keyboards.

gaius• 18 years ago

When you talk about "the Chinese" you're talking about somewhere between 3-4x the population of the US. Now, the US has the advantage that historically, smart people from all over the world (including China) have emigrated to there. The Chinese also have the disadvantage that a lot of intellectuals were murdered there during the "Great Leap Forward". Even so, their culture presently values education and engineering, so I'd argue that the difference is merely now there's sufficient penetration of Internet technologies for more Chinese to enter the competitions in the first place.

0_o• 18 years ago

But websites in China really suck,where are these contest winners?

ideamonk• 18 years ago

checkout some stats http://opc.shaastra.org/ranks/

even mid school folks from china did well in the contest.. almost first 3-4 ranks occupied by chinese

and then http://www.spoj.pl/ranks/countries/

checkout quality(total points/total users) of china compared to india...

yan• 18 years ago

Maybe more and more people are getting access to computers and to decent learning material and universities?

AskHN: Why are chinese getting good at programming contests?

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