Contest advisor: a tool to help with the creation of programming contests.

Abstract

Being prepared for programming competitions is not an easy task, it usually requires lots of hours practicing to improve your problem-solving skills. To help with this preparation process, students commonly join study groups, campings, or courses focused on that, where they take lessons about common programming competition topics and are submitted to lists of problems or unofficial contests. Although there are many platforms, named Online Judges, with large repositories of problems to practice, selecting them to compose your lists or contests with high quality is generally a manual and hard task. With that being said, this work aims to introduce the Contest Advisor tool that was developed to make this selection process automatic and help with the creation of such programming contests.