There is a regular season of FOUR competitions/contests. The Final Test is for the individual s, depends on the Contest 1-4 scores. finals Contest is an individual, the qualified students will be invited by the ACSL ( depends on the 4 contest scores).
There is a $25 per-student registration fee to participate in the Finals.
More details are available in the Finals page of ACSL.ORG.
Session 1: Number systems, bases
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- Introduce the concept of bases. Specifically, bases 2, 8, 10, and 16. Practice converting between base 10 and other bases.
- Practice problems involving converting to/from base 10. Specifically, challenge/contest problems.
- Learn about math in different bases. Practice this math.
- Practice problems involving math in different bases/ Specifically, challenge/contest problems. Mix in some problems that involve converting to/from base 10.
- Learn about grouping bits into different digits (i.e. the motivation behind octal/hex), and the RGB color system.
- Practice problems involving RGB and bit groupings. Specifically, challenge/contest problems. Test taking strategies.
- Test taking strategies. Mixed problem review.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 2: Prefix/Infix/Postfix math notation (i.e. representing math in the form). Students need to understand order of operations
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- Review / debrief the first exam. Discuss the problems, and any challenges people had. Introduce the concept of prefix / postfix / infix notation. How to evaluate. Practice evaluating.
- More practice evaluating prefix / postfix / infix.
- Review order of operations. Work on translating between different ways of expressing expressions.
- Continue to practice translating between different expressions.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 3: Boolean algebra
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- Review / debrief the second exam. Discuss the problems, and any challenges people had. Introduce and, or not. Introduce truth tables. Practice making truth tables.
- More practice with truth tables, and evaluating expressions.
- Introduce simplifying boolean expressions, and DeMorgan’s law. Practice this.
- Continue to practice simplifying, and DeMorgan’s law.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 4: Graph theory
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- Discuss / debrief contest 3. Introduce graphs, complete graphs. Begin to discuss paths, simple paths, and loops. Practice this.
- Practice problems involving topics learned the previous week
- Degree, traversability.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Final Contest : BayCodingClub will have one class of Training class for the finals.
Based on the scores during the regular season, top students in all divisions will be invited to participate in an online Finals competition:
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Invitations E-mailed by ACSL.ORG : May 1, 2024 through May 16, 2024
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Invitational Finals Host by ACSL.ORG : Saturday, May 25, 2024 (Memorial Day weekend in the United States)
There is a nominal per-student registration fee to participate in the Finals to ACSL.
More details are available in the Finals page.
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