I had three test last week, two tests this week, and two tests next week. From what i heard my school gives more homework than most but i have no other schools to compare to.
Meh, I wish I had loads of test. I just have one giant comprehensive unfair, uncurved midterm for 3 hours, then finals. People in your school just want to justify the homework they have to do by making it grandeur.
Programming isn't really one to one and I doubt you will find anything amazingly amazing about the people there. It's probably just a couple 2nd year students that volunteer to help with the camp. If it's free then I guess it can't hurt, but from experience in a c++ camp I found it overly overwhelming and not much knowledge to take away.