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SCORE: the first student contest on software engineering

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The Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE), organized for the first time in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2009, attracted 50 student teams from around the world, produced an impressive and varied set of projects, and earned appreciative comments from participants and even from teams who chose not to submit their results to the competition. It was a remarkable success, but not without problems and setbacks. In this article we explain the objectives, constraints, and design philosophy of SCORE, particularly as they distinguish it from the tradition of computer science contests focused more narrowly on programming. We also recount key approaches taken to design and management of this novel kind of contest, the difficulties we met (some still outstanding), and the lessons learned.

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http://www.usfirst.org/
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http://cm.baylor.edu
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http://www.icfpcontest.org/
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http://ictf.cs.ucsb.edu/
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http://imaginecup.com/About/WhatIs.aspx
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http://code.google.com/android/adc/
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http://score.elet.polimi.it/Projects.html
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http://score.elet.polimi.it/media/report_guidelines.pdf
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M. Jazayeri and D. Mandrioli: SCORE: The first student Contest in Software Engineering. In ICSE Companion 2009, pp. 487--488.
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http://score-contest.org

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 35, Issue 4
July 2010
102 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1811226
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 20 July 2010
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 35, Issue 4

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  1. ICSE
  2. education
  3. software engineering contest

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