Summit 2016: How to make kids excited about programming / Iftach Bar

This talk is a story about the national Skillz CS competition that involved around 2200 students in the ages of 16-18. In the competition, we invented a game and the students needed to write a program that plays the game. We will talk about how the competition worked, what were the mechanics that drove the students to be so excited and about the technical challenges we had to face MP3