Computer programming students will be competing in the First Bytes programming competition Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Heritage High School.

“At the competition students will be given a programming problem description and then they actually have to write the program code to solve that problem,” Computer Science teacher Bryan Bunn said. “It’s kind of like what we do in class, except it’s more difficult and you submit your program to the judges and they judge it against a whole bunch of data. You either get the program right or wrong.”

Bunn hopes the competition will help to better prepare his students for future competitions.

“The competition will help competing students get better prepared for future programming contests,” Bunn said. “We do the competition as an introduction to the UTD competition coming up two weeks afterwards, so that we can get more of our own kids comfortable there.”