Condelu Meals
//The Idea
So envision this: you're having a relaxing time, enjoying your summer break between your junior and senior years of high school, and you receive a call. It's a friend you met a few months ago, bringing with him the idea of starting a club at the school. This club — MathMinds, it was called — would inspire junior high students to be more involved in their math education through tournaments and a cash prize. The only problem? They need tests for the tournament.
Now, at this point I'd been on my school's math club with this friend for about a semester, doing UIL competitions that had a similar format, even with the goal of scholarships at the end of the line. I knew enough that it was entirely reasonable to come to me for help with writing these tests, but nobody wants to spend their summer doing that!
Inspiration arrived from the format of one of those competitions I had participated in. If you are familiar with UIL Calculator Applications, you might see where this is going, but for those who aren't:
- Seventy question test
- Half the questions being a hefty equation to type into a calculator as fast as possible
- The other half of them are pulled from a vast sum of variations of word and geometry problems.
That last point is the one that's the most interesting. A bank of problem 'templates' chosen at random — oh, there was some pattern, but never consistent enough to take advantage of — and with the numbers 'fields' randomly generated as well. Sure, I could help write a new test every time the club needed it. Or, I could create a piece of software to do it all for me, generating a random and entirely unique test every time.
//Requisite Features
System.out.println("Hello, World!");