Students from countries like China, Russia and US are very good in mathematics and alogithmic programming. Also tcountries have diverse and enormous talent everywhere. It's also a fact that these countries invest in the development of such talented students not in view of prizes but, yes as youth development. Ex: Titu Andreescu, Zhuming Feng and many other extra-ordinary teachers have been harboured in the States for the IMOs. Talking of the ICPCs and other programming contests- the universities have a rigorous CSE programme which emphasizes on core algorithmic programming and mathematics. The students work real hard and have a personal zeal in such fields. Not to mention even India is pretty good and has achieved a lot in both Maths and Coding competitions. We have the IITs which come up with the brightest and the best every year (There are others, but IITs top the list). Besides the student force in India is also one of the brightest and talented and probably THE MOST focused. It's just that sometimes talent goes unnoticed. In general the whole success factor just boils down to intelligence, passion for the subject and nurturing it through practice and training.
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:41:46 PM UTC+5:30, Pranav Kulkarni wrote: > > (this might be an odd question) with all my experiences and > observations about coding events, it seems to me that Russians show > lots of potential and excellence in this kind of events! Are there any > specific reasons behind this? Like academics, enthusiasm, etc factors. > > -- > Thanks and Regards. > > Pranav Kulkarni, > B. Tech., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > Walchand College of Engineering, > Sangli - 416 415 > > Wish you a Very Good Day! :) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code/-/Y29dSaX-ZCAJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
