Write a "HelloWorld" program in your selected environment. MSOE student volunteers will be available to help with this.
The competition problems will require user input. Write a practice
program that will prompt the user to enter a piece of data (string or
number) and echo the entry back to the console. In Java, you would likely
use the Scanner class for this. In C++, you would likely use std::cin.
The practice solution must be
namedPractice.java, practice.cpp,
or practice.py (as appropriate).
Competition problems often require you to read data from a text
file. If you have time, use your development environment to
create a text file with your school
name in it, then write a program to prompt the user for the name of a
file, open the file, read every line from it, and display those lines on
the screen.
All file locations discussed in the instructions are recommendations, not requirements. You may set up the projects and files in any fashion you choose. The contents of your laptop are not visible to the judges. Only the source files that you submit via the scoring website will be used for evaluation.
Each team will use two laptops. While the laptops have access to the
network for file submission, the laptops are not networked to each
other. If you need to share files among the laptops, you will need to use
a flash drive (not provided).
Be sure you use just two laptops, regardless of whether you
are using the MSOE laptops or your own.
Note the tie-breaker is quality of solution. We have had several
contests go to tie-breakers in the past few years!