how about best text based game? single player, multi-player allowed.
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how about best text based game? single player, multi-player allowed.
I don't even read the documentation from design, why text-based?
more people would be able to enter. =)
Maybe some Big Integer thing! Something that would be useful i guess :D
usefull is no fun. games are fun =)
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Originally Posted by psychotomus
Hang your head in shame young Padawan.
never. programming must be about fun.
Programming can be both rewarding and challenging. But fun basically means you have no seriousness or desire really. Something challenging would be nice that will stimulate our minds!!!!!
I second the notion for a new contest. :D
I got a nice idea for a new competition:
A substitution code 'breaker' competition. E.g. the fastest code breaker/and most accurate code breaking program.
Basically the idea is for a program to automatically decipher 2-3 lines or more text which is simply coded by substituting the letters with other letters of the alphabet.
Any takers?
Hey I am In --- can U explain more :D
This is my first real post in this forum, so i have a question. Does the contest have to be in only VB6/.net? or can there be contests for other languages. Because i dont really program in vb anymore, i have moved to webbased PHP, and would like a PHP contest :D
There wouldnt be enough people to do a php contest. Also it would be very difficult to mark etc.
I'm happy to get a contest going. Once we can get a decent Idea.
Raedwulf
PM me your ideas, I'll see what we can do!
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Originally Posted by Raedwulf
I don't quet follow.
How would you know if you have the right text? Wouldn't that be something too random to try and mark it? Unless I'm missing something? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by psychotomus
have to check for words in a dictionary. there goes how to do it =)
how about word descrambler? 5 6 7 or 8 letter words and we descramble them.
By 'descramble' do you mean just provide all possible combinations? Because that's fairly easy.
If not, I assume you mean it's a specific word. Which means it's impossible to know what word it was originally because there could be multiple.
if there are multiple real words, you would list them all. But in most cases there wouldn't be. And there would be plenty of ways to optimize your program's guesses such as not letting 4 vowels in a row or 3 of the same letter, etc.
plenty of rules could be used.
I could do PHP as well.
So how many PHP-able persons do we have here? What I've heard, a lot of VB6 programmers switched to PHP...
well from what i know there is:
dclamp
penagate
visualad
Merri
LordOrwell (i think)
depends entirely on what is decided on. I am very weak in some areas but willing to try anyway if it is something i am interested in. Text manipulation is no big deal at all. The first program i ever wrote was a text-based adventure.
im a phper
i was looking at a thread about all the languages people know, and majority of the members knew php. I think we should get a php contest going.
I wouldn't mind being a judge :)
AFTER READING FAQ:
If i get enough people willing to do a contest in PHP, can i start a contest?
what is php?
-tgQuote:
from PHP online manual
PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.
edit - are you SERIOUS? VBF won't take my message because it's "too short". Gimmie a break. I think I need to file a grievance in the ForumFeedback.
it doesnt parse quotes when checking the length ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by techgnome
if it's php then i am out. I am only now trying to pick up a little css.
i should take a chit chat poll of people who know php, to get a good feel as to if we should start one :)
even if someone DID know it, wouldn't you have to have a server to test it on?
You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL on your own computer, there are some good and easy to use installations available.
Also, Microsoft's IIS is available in XP Professional and it comes with every Vista installation disk (afaik), so you'd only need to put the disk in and voilá! you have a webserver on your machine. Of course you still need PHP (installing it manually by hand can sometimes be on the harder side, or atleast this was the case a few years back; I've used those easy Apache installations when I've had the need).
So it isn't really a big problem, you can access web server running on your own machine by using localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the address.
ok i started a poll in the chit chat section, but i think it needs to be moved to the general developer section...
hmm i am using corporate professional 64. I think i already have it installed. but i have disabled so many services for performance, that i may not be able to get it to run again :( I had issues in the past when i installed it in the first place.
Just to let you guys know the contest would really have to be Vb or Vb.net (or both) while many of us (including myself) code PHP. This forum isnt a php forum.
Thanks
It is not required that it be VB or VB.net
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Originally Posted by Contest FAQ
i vote for qbasic
True, but having it in anything else would stop the vast majority of our members from competing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
Err... I don't see how we couldn't have a contest with another language. I don't see how it could do any harm. If someone doesn't know a language, he just doesn't take part; however, PHP is so widely adapted that there are lots of potential contestants.
Anyways, I don't see why having a contest in another language would stop people from taking part in the next VB contest that could come after a PHP one.
To state the obvious: Not having a contest has stopped all members from competing. A contest of any kind would at the very least raise interest in future contests.Quote:
Originally Posted by si_the_geek
I didn't mean that it wouldn't be possible to have a contest that involves PHP, but that having a contest focussed on PHP at the expense of our main languages doesn't make sense - as it would be intentionally stopping the majority of our members from entering.
As far as I see it, things have only got to the point of "we could use PHP". As the largest part of organising a coding contest is generally "what are we actually going to code, and how are we going to test it?", I don't see why that isn't the focus. The last mention of a potential "what to do" was about 20 posts (and 2 weeks) ago, and did not seem to be anywhere near ready.
I know that the contests here aren't as frequent as people would like, but a large part of that is because it takes time to get any contest organised in the first place, and time for it to run (with various questions during that period), and time for it to be marked/judged.
For all of that to happen, somebody needs to give up a fair amount of their time for an extended period. I for one am not in a position to do that, and I'm afraid don't really have the inclination either. For somebody to do it purely for what is a relatively minor language on this site doesn't seem right.
Depending on what the contest is about, it is possible that as well as our primary languages, others could be used (including those from our "Other Languages" sub forums, like PHP), assuming of course that there is somebody to do the marking/judging.
Completely eliminating all of our main languages (thus most of our members) does not make sense to me.
Ok I'm going to work on some ideas and set a contest up....
Well, i would be more then happy to test the php projects, as well as help with judging grading.
Also, i have a dedicated server where i can create private ftp accounts for people to build their application on, if they dont have the resources.
I think a great contest would be a content management system, or forum. Depending on how good the coder is, they can choose between Easy, Moderate, or Hard.
Creating a simple CMS is somewhat easy, but building it with features that are actually required takes some time: I've been building a CMS core for my own use alongside with my work and it isn't a very fast project. And the project isn't very feature rich (though admittedly I didn't make it by purpose at first and I have often been limited of time, I've only lately started organizing things together as a complete CMS).
Pino, please keep us updated.
Oi! Clamp!
I do PHP aswell, add me to your list! #rage#
A thought: It might be possible to come up with a contest that is doable in both VB and PHP.
No, such thing is next to the impossible!
I disagree.
i agree with penagate. There are lots of things that you can do in both PHP as well as VB
And judge them one against the other? Or basically have 2 contest running with the same topic? Like we had the prime numbers running for VB6 and VB.Net but marked them separately?Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
run them separately
My humour is broken. I'll see if I can patch it for the upcoming week.
(read: I actually agree with that too)
ah! i get the joke. you were using Sarcasm
It's the Finnish accent. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Merri
Depends on the marking criteria. If it's something where the end result varies, then they could be judged together; if the end result must be constant but marks awarded for elegance/speed/etc., then they would have to be judged separately.Quote:
Originally Posted by manavo11
some DB type application would be a good choice.
This idea is either the worst idea I ever head, or possibly a really good one...
Why not have a competition to see who can create the most convoluted and obfuscated version of 'hello world'? Rather than creating an efficient and brilliant solution to a complicated problem, see who can make a complicated and unnecessarily long solution to a simple one! Would be good for a laugh. Only rule would be that you can't have lines of code that don't do anything at all. Everything must have a demonstrable purpose, no matter how obscure or superfluous.
Thoughts?
metal
sounds good. and you couldn't change a data type more than once.
Well... it would go rather easily simply by not having "Hello world" as a regular string, but as a 3D accelerated graphic instead that would be calculated... and if the end result must be a string, then add in an image-to-character reader (can't remember what it was called again).
Oh, did I just spoil that idea? :P