ACM SIGMOD Programming Contest: an opportunity to study distinguished aspects of database systems and software engineering

Abstract

Nowadays, students have a lot of opportunities for deep study of various disciplines of IT: extracurricular courses, summer schools, programming contests. In this paper we make a short survey of such opportunities and describe details of our participation in the annual ACM SIGMOD Programming contest, held by the SIGMOD conference and devoted to development of science-intensive database applications.