In Defense of U.S. College Programmers

Concerns over the United States’ poor showing at this year’s International Collegiate Programming Contest are much ado about nothing, argues Norm Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis.

Foreign institutions—particularly in China and Eastern Europe—have eclipsed their American counterparts in the event. But they’ve done so, Mr. Matloff says, by asking students to spend nearly all of their free time training for the competition. (CNET News)