The 29th Annual
ACM-ICPC World Finals
sponsored by IBM
Shanghai, China
April 6, 2005


2005 World Champions
Shanghai Jiaotong University


Rank Name Solved Time
1 Shanghai Jiaotong University 8 1517
2 Moscow State University 7 711
3 St Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics 7 888
4 University of Waterloo 7 1046
5 University of Wroclaw 7 1155
6 Fudan University 7 1275
7 KTH - Royal Institute of Technology 6 965
8 Norwegian University of Science & Technology 6 1054
9 Izhevsk State Technical University 6 1072
10 POLITEHNICA University Bucharest 6 1113
11 Peking University 6 1131
12 The University of Hong Kong 6 1145
13 Novosibirsk State University 6
13 Tsinghua University 6
13 Ufa State Technical University of Aviation 6
13 Yonsei University 6
17 Amirkabir University of Technology 5
17 Belarusian State University 5
17 Information & Communications University 5
17 Perm State University 5
17 Saratov State University 5
17 Sharif University of Technology 5
17 St. Petersburg State University 5
17 University of British Columbia 5
17 University of Illinois 5
17 Ural State University 5
17 Warsaw University 5
17 ZhongShan (Sun Yat-sen) University 5
29 Altai State Technical University 4
29 Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology 4
29 California Institute of Technology 4
29 Duke University 4
29 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 4
29 Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica 4
29 Kyoto University 4
29 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4
29 Nanyang Technological University 4
29 Seoul National University 4
29 Sofia University 4
29 University of Alberta 4

So? Programming is not easy to corner because people can do it from their homes and teach them selves. I bet 90% of websites are made with self-taught HTML. it is the same way with programming (on low levels, i.e C, C++, java). When it comes to something like physics or math, then you raise a red flag.

p.s. don’t get me wrong, I am not saying they taught them selves all of this programming, but when people already have a good programming foundation when they get into college the teachers can focus on more advanced things. when students learn more advanced things the will out perform their peers. the reason America lags is because our high schools have a lot of problems.

Don't they teach physics and math in high schools too? :D

ok, firstly, I didn't say we didn't have a problem with physics and math in America, I just said we should worry about them more than programming.

Secondly, the environment of high schools in America makes students less focused on their futures than they should be, which is the problem I spoke of. and thus they are surely not going to teach them selves C++, or java as much as they might otherwise.