Introduction to Progfest

Progfest is an annual CalState LA Programming Challenge that offers high school and community college students an opportunity to solve college-level and real-world programming problems by applying the principles of computer science. We believe today's high school and college students have great potential, and we hope being a part of progfest will help them in their future studies of computer science and software engineering. Admission is free, and lunch will be provided to all participants.

The Challenge

This year's ProgFest will be different from prior years. It consists of data structure and algorithm exercises within Android applications. The first part of the day will be a 2 hour hands-on workshop on creating very basic Android applications. The rest of the day will involve creating Android games that require the use of relatively sophisticated algorithms and data structures.

All exercises will be done in Java (with a small amount of XML) - a good grasp of Java is required.
Knowledge of at least these Java data structures is needed: HashMaps, ArrayLists, Sets, Trees, Tries.
Knowledge of recursion would be helpful, along with algorithms such as breadth-first search and depth-first search.
Knowledge of basic text Java IO would also be helpful.
Practice using Android Studio and deploying Android apps to an emulator will make doing the projects easier.

Introduction to Progfest

The Challenge

List of Allowed Websites for Progfest

Android Studio Setup Instructions

Prior Problem Sets

Photos

Sponsors