On December 5, 2021 and December 12, 2021, members of AYLUS Puget Sound held the review sessions for the first contest in ACSL competition! Then, on January 9, 2022 and January 16, 2022, the review sessions for the second contest of ACSL. Members spent a couple of days before the class dates preparing solutions to the ACSL short questions as well as sample code for the programming questions. This is the first time AYLUS Puget Sound has opened events on CS and programming topics.
Our ACSL review sessions are led by AYLUS Puget Sound members Sophie Xuan and Sarah Xuan. The instructors split up the 3 Short concepts and programming question per division for the past contests and prepare solutions and explanations to help local students prepare for the ACSL competition. Each single contest is split up across 2 classes to account for time, where the first class covers the first two short concepts and corresponding practice past contest questions, and the second class covers the last short concepts and corresponding past contest questions as well as the approach and sample code for the programming questions across ACSL’s 3 divsions. The Short concepts on Contest 1 covered included Computer Number Systems, Recursive Functions, as well as What Does This Program Do? (reading psuedocode). The Short concepts on Contest 2 covered included Prefix-Infix-Postfix Notation, Bit-String Flicking, and LISP.
We will be continuing the Class until the months of April and May where the ACSL last contests and finals will be occurring.
Hours Summary:
Sarah Xuan: 16.5
Sophie Xuan: 17