Judging is from 4–5:15PM, meaning that you should be set up and ready to go at 4PM.

There will be pizza from Papa Dells courtesy of GWA, Inc.

There will be awards at 5:30PM in Siebel 1404.

You’ll learn an enormous amount.

And it’s fun.

180 points total, which should help you allocate your time

30 1-point multiple choice questions, similar to those at the start of most quizzes (30 points)

30 2-point multiple choice questions, similar to those at the end of many exams (60 points)

Note that there will be no second guesses on the multiple choice questions

6–8 programming questions covering arrays, lists, trees, recursion, objects, class design, sorting, exceptions, and any other appropriate programming topics (90 points)

Most of the grading will be done automatically

In many cases there will be multiple versions of each programming questions, and you’ll be assigned one randomly

Different question variants are being designed to have the same difficulty level, but we’ll look at the aggregate scores and adjust as needed