The Software University (SoftUni)

The Software University (SoftUni) is the largest training center for software engineers in the South-Eastern Europe. Tens of thousands of students pass through the university every year. SoftUni was founded in 2014, as a continuation of the hard work of Dr. Svetlin Nakov in training skillful software engineering professionals by a practical, contemporary and high-quality education, that combines fundamental knowledge with modern software technologies and a lot of practice.

SoftUni: High-Quality Practical Tech Education

The Software University provides quality education, profession, job and diploma for programmers, software engineers and IT professionals. SoftUni builds an extremely successful and strong connection between education and industry by collaboration with hundreds of software companies, provides job and internship of its students, creates quality professionals for the software industry and directly responds to the needs of employers via the training process.

Video: SoftUni and SoftUni Judge

Watch a video lesson about SoftUni and SoftUni Judge here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLET8SDBE4.

The Automated Judge System

The SoftUni Judge system (https://judge.softuni.org) is an automated Internet system for checking the solutions of programming exercises via series of tests. The submission and verification happen in real time: you submit the solution and within seconds you get an answer whether it is correct. Each successfully taken test gives you the points it gains. For a completely correct solution you get all the points for this problem. For partially correct solution you get part of the points for the task. For a completely wrong solution you get 0 points. This how the SoftUni Judge looks like:

All problems from the current book are available for testing in SoftUni Judge and we strongly recommend testing them after you solve them to be sure you don't miss anything and that your solution works correctly according to the task requirements.

Keep in mind some specifics about SoftUni Judge:

• For each task the Judge system keeps the best score you had. Therefore, if you upload a solution with wrong code or lower score compared to the previous one, the system won't take away your points.
• The output of your program is compared by the system to a strictly expected result. Every unnecessary symbol, missing comma or space may lead to 0 points on a particular test. The output that the Judge expects is described in the requirements of every task and nothing else should be added.
• Example: If the output requires to print a number (ex. 25), do not display any descriptive messages such as The result is: 25, just print as it is required, i.e. only the number.

The SoftUni Judge system is available any time via its website: https://judge.softuni.org.

• Using the SoftUni Judge system is free and it's not bound with the participation in SoftUni's courses.

We are convinced that after sending a few tasks you will like getting instant feedback for your solutions and the Judge system will become your favorite assistant in your programming practice.