Competitive Programming
This team consistently scores the highest in CS UIL year after year
What is Cy Woods?
When variables are assigned to a type according to their behaviors and characteristics such that a type of a variable can change if its value is changed; used in Python
What is duck typing?
A type of algorithm that focuses on the most optimal choice at each stage (sometimes used in a recursive algorithm as a way to implement backtracking, like Dijkstra's algorithm)
What is greedy?
This data-encoding format gives every character a standard numerical value to ease electronic communication; and it's known as ASCII for short
What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange?
Battle royale game we have all heard of, infamous for the memes
What is Fortnite?
CS UIL teams can have up to four participants in this event
What is team programming?
An object that stores a memory address
What is a pointer?
The absolute best way to solve all your problems
What is brute force?
Maximum value of an int
What is (2^31) -1? (bonus $50 if you wrote out 2147483647 because holy cow that's impressive)
A wrong answer on the UIL test is worth a deduction of this many points
Name this Java operation:
int x = (bool1)? num1 : num2;
What is a ternary operator?
DAILY DOUBLE 2!
What is a hash function?
The father of the computer
Who was Charles Babbage?
Mr. Garcia's Birthday
What is August 23rd?
Maximum possible score on the UIL test
What is 240?
A Python data type that serves as a collection, similar to a list, but is immutable in both structure and value
What is a tuple?
An algorithm used to efficiently find an item in a sorted list by recursively dividing the list into two
What is binary search?
This person is largely considered to be the first programmer
Who was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)?
DAILY DOUBLE 3!
What is February 17th?
Bridgeland High School placed in this position in both 2022 and 2023 district-level UIL, so we were unable to advance
What is 3rd place?
The order of operations for the bitwise and boolean operators (|, ||, &, &&, and ^) (list them in order)
What is &, ^, |, &&, ||?
The O-notation of the following:
public String higherOrLower(int[] array)
{
if (array[array.length -1] > array[0]) {
return "Higher"; }
else if (array[array.length -1] < array[0]) {
return "Lower"; }
else {
return "Neither"; }
}
What is O(1)?
This was the first public computer network and is known as the precursor to our modern internet
What is ARPANET? (The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
Mr. Watson's favorite dessert
What are pralines?