Advent of Code  Dec 1st - 25th
 SECOND Fall 2024 LASA UIL Practice Contest (until Dec 31)  leaderboard
lasacs.com/uilpractice (also in right side menu)
16 problems (get a LASA{CS} shirt* if you finish 6 problems)
*if you don't already have one
LASA is hosting NACLO - North American Computational Linguistics Open
January 23rd, 2025
Solve linguistic puzzles while exercising logic skills. No prior knowledge of linguistics, programming, or second languages is required (example problem - solution)
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Advent of Code

The Advent of Code 2024 starts on Sunday December 1st.  A new challenge every day until Christmas.

Win a LASA{CS} T-shirt (top 3 finishers and several winners from a drawing in which each correct problem gets you a ticket).

Please sign up for the appropriate leaderboard.

Fundamentals & AP CS leaderboard code  1028831-9541d4b6

post-AP CS leaderboard code  1057094-d412e885

For many problems you’ll have to be able to read data from a file

Several examples for how to read from a file (using Python and JAVA) can be found in the UIL Contests – Things to know  doc.

For Fundamental students, you can also look at the Python Files presentation.