Ensino de programação para Olimpíada Brasileira de Informática

Resumo

With the outstanding growth of the technology usage, the knowledge in computing and programming has been becoming a vital element in the society, however, many yong people have mistaken ideas about this knowledge, which reflects on the high dropout rate of the courses related to the computing area. This article presents an extension project that aims to teach programming skills to high school students, enabling them to participate of the Brazilian Computer Olympiad, event which allows the students to know more deeply the Computer Science. The participating students showed great satisfaction with the course, having interest in being part of the future editions of the same.