Direct Entry

From this page you can assess and develop your programming skills. This page is for Java, you may use a C# version at C#:Direct Entry.

In programmes such as BEng. Software Engineering, BEng. Internet Computing, BEng. Multimedia Systems and BEng. Computing you will need the ability to build programs in Java. This section shows you the kinds of skills that are taught in first year. You can follow the tutorials and take the tests.

What to do

Try out the tests shown.

If you can complete all of the easy tasks then you should have just enough programnming to survive!
Do the medium tasks and you'll be well set up for year two programming.
Try some of the hard tasks just for fun...

BEWARE You won't be able to complete these tasks until you have worked through the corresponding tutorial material.

For the Graphics Tests

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For the Algorthm Tests