Programming for Competitions

Understand the power of programming in solving problems
Understand what a software hiring manager validates when hiring a software engineer
Learn how to make python a go-to-tool for applying it in solving problems in our day-2-day life
Master the fundamentals of writing Python scripts
Learn core Python scripting elements such as variables and flow control structures
Discover how to work with lists and sequence data
Write Python functions to facilitate code reuse
Use Python to read and write files
Make their code robust by handling errors and exceptions properly
Work with the Python standard library

PROGRAM DETAILS

Assignment Sample: Write a program to calculate the percentage increase in the cylinder if the height and or radius is increased/decreased by a given percentage.

Assignment Sample: Write a program that displays a clock. It should ask the user to input an hour and minutes, and then have the turtle draw a clock face with the hour and minute hands in the correct position.

Assignment Sample: On planet CK STEM, each year has 15 months and each month has 26 days. Write a program to calculate your age on CK STEM today? How much younger or older you will be on this new planet?

Assignment Sample: Morphe images to change its face or make it run etc.
Write a program to check whether a product of digits at even places is divisible by the sum of digits at the odd place of a number.

Assignment Sample: Write a function that returns an acronym for a string consisting of the all capital letter of each word in a string. For example, make_acronym('Competitive Kids STEM') would return 'CKSTEM'.
Write a program to find if a word is a palindrome.

Assignment Samples: Write a program to calculate maximum profit after buying and selling the stocks
Write a program that asks the user to enter a positive integer n and then outputs the nth Fibonacci number.
Solve a simple 3x3 or a complex 9x9 sudoku using lists.

The final project will be assigned in week 3. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught from week 1-8 and demo their solution in the final 2 weeks. The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught in the first 8 weeks.

Total Number of Sessions

Length of each session in minutes

First session starts, weekly

Eastern Time (ET) when we will meet online every Thursday