GRADING SYSTEMS FOR COMPETITIONS IN PROGRAMMING*

Competitions in programming appeared in the 70s of the past century for attracting talented young people to the profession of programmer. Soon after the start of organizing programming contests, grading systems became an inevitable part of the process of evaluation of contestants ' results. Recently, dierent applications of the grading systems were announced that were going beyond the initial scope of these systems. The paper presents the main objectives and concepts in the domain, the architecture of a typical grading system and some examples. The perspectives and challenges of the grading system in their original usage, as well as in their usage in some related domains, are outlined