ECOO

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ECOO stands for the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. Established in 1979, ECOO connects technology to the educational curriculum.

1 Computer Programming Contests
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Computer Programming Contests

ECOO organizes programming contests for Ontario secondary school students. As well, it provides a free online practice contest, DWITE, in preparation for the ECOO contests. All of the contests are free of charge and consist of four problems to be solved in three hours. Programs are to input .txt files and output onto the screen. Part marks are given to partially correct outputs and a time-bonus is also alloted for every five minutes before the end of the contest when submitted. Each team can have a maximum of four members from the same school. The ECOO contests consist of three parts:

[edit] Boardwide Programming Contest

It is distributed by email to convenors of school boards. The school boards use this contest to select the teams that will represent them in the Regional Programming Contest. The maximum number of teams that the school boards can send depend on the size of the school boards.

[edit] Regional Programming Contest

It is held at several locations across Ontario. These contests are used to determine the teams that will represent their regions to participate in the Final Programming Contest.