Computer science is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League (UIL).
Computer science began during the 1990-91 scholastic year as strictly a team event.
The programming language to be used is limited to Java and the compiler used for the contest will be the Oracle Java Development Kit; specific acceptable versions are determined by the UIL prior to each school year.
For individual competition (overall and for each subsection), the tiebreaker is percent accuracy (number of problems answered correctly divided by number of problems attempted, defined as any question with a mark or erasure in the answer blank).
For district meet academic championship and district meet sweepstakes awards, points are awarded to the school as follows: NOTE: For privacy reasons, only the winning school is shown.
Computer Science was strictly a team event until the 1996-97 school year.