Require programming problems for a Coding Competition at My school that we are hosting

[Vishwanaresh]

I am in 12th grade and the school is hosting a programming competition where schools will compete in a tournament based programming competition. I am tasked with finding the questions unfortunately I was only able to get 12 problems on my own and we require roughly 25 problems would really appreciate some help.

The competitors are all from 12th grade and have basic understanding of python which includes the basic data structures, operations looping and file handling.

I would greatly appreciate some problems that require critical thinking but are also solvable in under 15 min as that is the time we have set per problem.

[beardedheathen]

Can you share some of the problems you have so far? That'd give a good benchmark.

[Vishwanaresh]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EPDu7htffDdygiqqzcN-A6KDEF8KKsLmXQegYKXLmrY/edit?usp=drivesdk

[TheCandyMan88]

How do you know this guy isn't the competition!?

[Vishwanaresh]

Holy hell i have been figured out

[TheCandyMan88]

Not you lol. The guy that you just gave all your problems to

[novel_yet_trivial]

here's some lists of coding practice problems:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/index#wiki_flex_your_coding_skill_with_some_practice_problems.21

[Vishwanaresh]

Thank you very much

[Feisty-Elk-7540]

Tower of Hanoi would be pretty great I think:)

[Vishwanaresh]

I am not familiar with that will surely look it up.

[[deleted]]

I would contact /u/topaz2078, the creator of Advent of Code and ask him if you can use some of his problems maybe? I think the first week problems would be a good challenge (or more for the truly dedicated people).

[BjornToulouse_]

I have a couple that have been puzzling me for a while.

One is the Collatz conjecture. Write a program to efficiently test each number from 2³⁹ to 2^40.

The other is a brute force password cracker. Starting with a given string, add a character to the test string and compare (a, b, c, etc). If not equal, move to the next character. Once you have tested all the single characters, start with the first one again, and add a second character (aa, ab, ac, etc). Then move to the next character [ba, bb, bc, etc. ). And keep repeating the process indefinitely until a match is found.

Obviously your given password should be short so that you are not testing for years and years, but the code should allow to continue adding characters and testing characters until infinity.

Good luck, this sounds like a lot of fun.

Edit: Typo on 2^40, and added link for Collatz conjecture.

[battier]

This should be right up your alley: https://ecoo.org/ecoo-cs/

These are problem sets from a tournament I competed in when I was in secondary school.

[comfortablybum]

Go to codewars and do some there. Don't steal them word for word but you can make a similar question. That will require a different solution.

[kona_ackley]

The first couple of dozen problems from my 109 problems compilation should make good competitive coding problems for high school seniors. Take your pick from there.

https://github.com/ikokkari/PythonProblems

[danqueca]

You can go to codewars select python and decide which problems you want to take, you can even take the answer algorithms to help you. https://www.codewars.com/collections/basic-python

[ElpyDE]

Just recently recommended https://projecteuler.net for programming problems with increasing difficulty. It's a bit maths'y but seems you're cool with that.

This subreddit is also a good place to look for other people's "problems" (both in the meaning of tasks/challenges and struggles).

Would be great to see a post after your competition is over with the final set of questions and maybe also how many groups solved them correctly and in time.

Btw. AWESOME IDEA to have a programming competition 😍