Welcome to the SSSC's 2023 Coding Challenge! We've created several unique challenges that expose you to many areas of software development. Over the next couple of hours, you will try to solve as many of the provided challenges as you can.
The groups with the most points at the end of the night wins! 🏆 And don't worry - there will also be a random raffle at the end of the night, so make sure to stay the whole time and try your best!
In this repo, there are 8 unique challenges for you to tackle! They vary in field and difficulty. You can complete them in any order you want, based on your interest! More instructions are provided with each challenge.
WHEN YOU COMPLETE A CHALLENGE let us know so that we can record your points! At the end of the night, we will calculate the number of points each student has earned! SSSC mentors will be wearing "Ask Me" pins during the event.
Here are the challenges:
| Challenge Name | Technical Area | Language | Number of Points | Author(s) |
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| Come up with a Team Name | Creativity | English | 50 | You |
| Fun Carnival Mirror Challenge | OpenCV | Python | 100 | Rhishita, Sebastian |
| Synapse Syntax Solver Challenge 🧠 | Basic Data Structures | Python | 100 | Michael |
| Bad code | Debugging | Java | 100 | Rose, Omar |
| Fifa Tournament | Algorithm | Java | 150 | Fabrice, Fahim |
| Array Stats | Basic Data Structures and Algorithms | Java and Python | 150 | Jordon |
| Shape Race challenge | Pygame | Python | 300 | Tiffany, Fatima |
| What'd I eat for breakfast? | Frontend Web Development | HTML, JavaScript (recommended) | 400 | Raef, David |
You can download the challenges as a zip file from the GitHub page.
- At the top of this GitHub page, click the green button labelled
<> code. A menu will appear. - In that menu, click the option that says
Download as Zip. - Open the new
CodingChallenge2023folder with your favourite code editor
Optionally, you could also follow these steps to clone the repository to your computer.
- Open a terminal/command prompt on your computer
- Navigate into the directory you want to work in using
cd <name-of-directory> - Run
git clone https://github.com/ScienceStudentSuccessCentre/CodingChallenge2023.git- If you don't have Git, install it
- Open the new
CodingChallenge2023folder with your favourite code editor
If you need help with anything, please ask an SSSC mentor (the people wearing "Ask Me" pins)!
This year, members of the top three teams with the most number of points will each receive:
| 🥇 First place: $20 Campus Card Dollars |
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| 🥈 Second place: SSSC Scarves |
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| 🥉 Third place: SSSC Memory Keys |
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In addition, we will be holding a raffle, for another chance to win an SSSC Prize Package (scarf, memory key, & pen)! 🤯
Have fun, and good luck! 🍀