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Re:1984, Hungarian Edition by wslh on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:34AM (#5899403)
Yes, don't expect "Hungary for Dummies" and the movie traverses many generations.

Just curious: how is the education level of computer science in Hungary now?

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Re:1984, Hungarian Edition by jeffasinger on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:40AM (#5899440)
I would imagine it's still very good, at least on the theoretical side.

Hungary has perhaps the strongest mathematical tradition of any country, particularly in graph theory and other combinatorial math.

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Re:1984, Hungarian Edition by wslh on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:56AM (#5899556)
I am not sure, that's why I am asking.

On TopCoder Hungary is ranked #39. On the ACM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_P... they are not in the top.

On IMO http://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx the numbers are also not good.

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Re:1984, Hungarian Edition by Vivtek on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @04:55PM (#5902004)
Remember that the population of Hungary is about 1/30th of that of the United States. Correct for population size and you may get more interesting statistics.

You would not believe how excellent math education is here, and how important education is in the culture in general. Very stark difference from the United States.

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Re:1984, Hungarian Edition by friendly_chap on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @04:29AM (#5904384)
The theoretical foundations for math and CS is very strong, however, most newgrads has no real world experience neither particularly useful practical skills.
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