When you have a complete application, the department will write to you asking you to complete this series of quizzes. These quizzes are designed to ensure that you meet our admission standards, namely that you (a) are a competent programming in some programming language, and (b) have a good understanding of basic data structures and algorithms.

For the Data Structures and Algorithms quiz, you must take the quiz and get at least 75%. For the Programming quiz, you must write programs to solve the problems on the quiz, and get at least 75%. For both of the quizzes, you will take a screenshot of your results (showing your total score, the title of the quiz, and the time and date) and save these as proof that you have completed the quizzes.

When you have completed the quizzes with the required marks, you should reply to the department email (from Brenda.Lower@indstate.edu) with the following (attached as a zip file, or with a link to an online shared folder): (a) screenshot from the quizzes showing the scores, (b) current resume or c.v., (c) programs from the programming quiz. You should put these all in a zip file or online shared folder (e.g., Google Drive or Dropbox) and include these in your email response to the department. The department will check these and you will be referred to one of our technical interviewers for your technical interview.

For the technical interview, you should be prepared to show your programming solutions and to explain all of your solutions. You may be asked to write a program from scratch that is of similar difficulty as the programming problems from the quiz. You may be asked to explain the correct answers to the data structures and algorithms questions, and other questions of similar difficulty.

Note that you should refrain from getting help on the quizzes from others. This needs to be your own work, and we will check during the technical interview that you can explain your answers. We will end the interview early (with a decision of "not admitted") if we determine that you have submitted work that is not your own.

Each of the quizzes contains a link where you can look for resources to freshen up or learn the needed skills.

Click the Next button to go to the first quiz.