Pangrams

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that this sentence was composed of ten a’s, three b’s, and, last but not least, a single !

Wari Game

Wari is a game played on a board that consists of 12 cups placed in two parallel rows of six cups and a large cup at each end. The game is for two players; each player has a row of six cups and one large cup for prisoners.

Cellular Automata

A cellular automaton is a collection of “colored” cells on a grid of specified shape that evolves through a number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on the states of neighboring cells.

Dog Year Calculator

Dogs do not age at the same rate as humans. Write a program that converts the age of a dog to the equivalent for a human.

Film Society

In the bygone days videos and films were rented from shops on reflective pieces of plastic and magnetic rolls of ribbon. This is a software development task and an implementation task. (Taken from OCR 2507 Task 1 Jun 2006)

Etch A Sketch

Write a Etch A Sketch program that recreates the popular 70s/80s Etch A Sketch toy.

University Databases

Courses at a university consist of modules. This is a software development task and an implementation task. (Taken from OCR 2507 Task 1 Jun 2005)

Sith 2005

This is an algorithm trace task involving 2D Arrays. No implementation is required. (OCR 2507 Task 2 Jun 2005)

Mystery 2005

Follow the Mystery algorithm and record what it does. (OCR 2507 Task 4 Jun 2005)

Sith 2006

This is an algorithm trace task involving 1D Arrays and Floor Division. (OCR 2507 Task 2 Jun 2006)