1998 Questions
Home Up 1998 Questions 18th Competition Winners

 

Questions from this year's competition

Questions, Answers and Judges' Sheets are copyright Calgary Programming Society -- You are free to distribute them provided no charge is made for them and this notice appears in the distribution.

This means that Educators are welcome to make use of the problems in their classes (we'd like to know of your use for our information) but permission must be obtained before any commercial use is made of the Questions, Answers and Judges Sheets.

Some hints on how to win the competition that few competitors bother to use

What are these Pre-prepared Input and Output Routines you can bring into the competiton? Logo, Basic and "C"  pre-prepared input and output routine examples

Elementary School Logo Graphics Language

Part A General Instructions  -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q1, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV
Q2, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Acrobats
Q3, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV inside Scaly TV
Q4, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Walls of Acrobats
Part B General Instructions  -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q5, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Alien Drawings -- uses similar logic to Alien Mathematics
Q6, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Environmentally Friendly CAD program

Problem here is that the two groups of students are competing for some of the same prizes. How can you make questions with a similar degree of difficulty in two anguages with widely different capabilities. The answer is you can't. The best you can do is to try to make the easiest questions -- tackled by most students equivalently different and then have harder questions -- one easier in one language and the other easier in the other.

Elementary School -- Other Languages

Part A General Instructions  -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q1, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV
Q2, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Banner
Q3, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV inside Scaly TV
Q4, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Hang on your words
Part B General Instructions  -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q5, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Alien Mathematics
Q6, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Build an Alien -- Topological Sort

NOTE: Questions same as for Junior High -- just would expect that Elementary Students would get Q1 and part of Q2 complete and Junior High Students would get Q1, Q2 and part of Q3 or Q4 complete in 90 minutes. Similarly in Part B would expect Junior Students to complete the more difficult sections

Junior School -- Any Language

Part A General Instructions -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q1, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV
Q2, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Banner
Q3, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Scaly TV inside Scaly TV
Q4, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Hang on your words
Part B General Instructions -- Any body care to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q5, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Alien Mathematics

Q6, hints for solving, and Judges' sheet -- Build an Alien -- Topological Sort

Senior High School -- Any Language

Part A General Instructions -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q1 and Judges' sheet -- Transformer
Q2 and Judges' sheet -- Binary Multiplication
Q3 and Judges' sheet -- Topological Sort
Q4 and Judges' sheet -- City Repair
Part B General Instructions -- Any body want to give us web-pages of THEIR working answers
Q5 and Judges' sheet -- Inventory Control
Q6 and Judges' sheet -- Disk Driver

Problems, solutions and marking schemes from previous years can be found on our web site

1999 Practice Problems and Solutions -- let's see them come
1997 Competition Problems and Solutions -- Mainly the judges sheets
1996 Competition Problems and Solutions
1995 Competition Problems and Solutions

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