I need to study for a state competition.
Hello!
I am a first-year high school Computer Science student and the sole representative for my school at the state UIL competition. I only placed in test-taking at Regional with a rather pathetic score, and that without my team to help with the point-total at State. I need to study syntax, string-manipulation, collections, and Big-O measurements, among other things,not the actual programming. I would prefer lessons and quizzes focusing on one topic at a time to tests, but any reference would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
> so you just want "the quick answers" to cheat your
> way past a job interview about a topic you don't know
> the first thing about and you have no interest in
> learning about.
> Why didn't you say so immediately, would have made
> things so much easier for everyone.
I think he's look to see how data structures work and other algorithms. The tricky type stuff you'd see on a generally ridiculous test.
I know, I was in the Regional Competition for this.
To the original poster:
I'd suggest reading everything you can on Binary Search Trees, Priority Queues, Maps, Sets, LinkedLists, Iterators, etc.
Not only would I recommend reading these, but actually learning how to write your own classes that mirror what these do.
I didn't have enough time to study all of these, but after reading pages after pages of BST's I got every question on the test about them right. (Except 1 stupid mistake I made :( ).
On every test I've seen this year, the test creator has used a Sorting problem.
Eg. Selection sort, quick sort, merge sort, insertion sort.
I'd suggest reading over and learning all of those and how to implement them yourself.
Here is a great site that teaches you about Data Structuring and how to use/write the Sorting methods.
http://www.theparticle.com/javadata2.html
Good resource:
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/
You're going to the state level right?
Why do you need help ? :P
Unless you're in a smaller conference maybe?
Also, I'd be more focused on Data structuring and small algorithms rather than manipulation of Strings and such. On the latest test, there was 1 BigO question, and maybe 1 or 2 String manipulation questions.
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