Exercise Level Definitions

Basic

Should:

• Approachable for new programmers with rudimentary skills.
• Avoid all ambiguity in question text - should be straightforward.
• Only cover basic single level boolean logic
• Only cover boolean logic of:
  • if/else
  • &&
  • ||

Should Not:

• Be too simple - testing the processing of a single operation for example.

Standard

Should:

• Approachable for programmers with some limited experience.
• Involve a little ambiguity in question test - should be resolved with test run results.
• Only cover basic single level boolean logic
• Only cover boolean logic of:
  • if/else if/else
  • &&
  • ||
  • !

Should Not:

• Cover more advanced language features.

Harder

Should:

• Approachable for programmers with reasonable experience.
• Involve ambiguity in question test - should be resolved with test run results.
• Cover multiple levels of boolean logic
• Only cover boolean logic of:
  • if/else if/else
  • &&
  • ||
  • !

Should Not:

• Cover more advanced language features.

Specialist

Should:

• Approachable for programmers with reasonable C# experience.
• Cover C# language features - both advance and less so.
• Involve ambiguity in question test - should be resolved with test run results.
• Cover multiple levels of boolean logic
• Only cover boolean logic of:
  • if/else if/else
  • &&
  • ||
  • !