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Salem State University Coding Competition Fall 2023

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The Salem State University Coding Competition is being held Wednesday, November 29th, in MH 210 from 4-5 pm in person. To compete, sign up in advance, or you can come by for some food and watch the leaderboard. Questions? Email: abrockenbrough@salemstate.edu.

Salem State Coding Challenge is a Java 45-minute coding competition to solve programming challenges. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

How to Prepare

Practice using Hackerrank to become familiar with completing coding challenges on their web application.

This coding competition is in Java and focuses on algorithms rather than classes. If you have completed CSC 110 or the equivalent, you can compete. Topics that may be covered are: if statements, arithmetic expressions, output statements, looping, nested loops, 1D arrays, 2D arrays, ArrayList, Strings (accessing a letter in a string, comparisons of strings, etc.)

Prizes

There is a prize for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and 1st place winner name is engraved on the Winners Board in the CS department office.

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
  • Code directly from our platform, which supports over 30 languages. Learn more here.
  • You must be physically present in MH 201.
  • Only Salem State University students can compete.
  • The challenge coding language is Java.
  • You can bring a book on Java and/or one sheet of notes.
  • You must stay on the Hackkerrank site and not switch to other sites.
  • You cannot use an IDE and must write the code in the Hackerrank window.
  • This contest is for individuals.
  • Any competitor found cheating will be disqualified and banned from future coding contests. You cannot copy solutions.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score

Sign up for Salem State University Coding Competition Fall 2023 now.

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