[film42]

How can you truly rank CS students? Is it by exam scores, or ability to memorize algorithms? Maybe it's by code quality, or fluency?

Just asking because when I ask myself, "am I good programmer?" I come up short of an honest answer, so I'm left asking myself, "have you improved in the last month, 2 months, year?" Obviously I want to be the best, and maybe some answers to the question might shed light on how you can evaluate yourself.

[salazarm]

Of course there is no absolute measure but they held various contests from hackathons to coding puzzles/challenges and took the top performers of each challenge. Obviously this won't get the absolute best students but it is arguably a sufficient enough filter to at least get very skilled CS students.