ATOT Programming competition....

[gopunk]

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<< hehe, make a competitor for pgp? >>



enlighten me, what's pgp? >>



Pretty Good Privacy

 

[Martin]

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<< hehe, make a competitor for pgp? >>



enlighten me, what's pgp? >>




Pretty Good Protection or Privacy i think.
email encryption thingie.

 

[gopunk]

not just email... it's a public-key encryption system.

 

[Ameesh]

UCSD ownzjo0! (and Cal Tech!)

 

[JetBlack69]

Ok, screw that idea. I can't think of anything else right now.

 

[gopunk]

i think i will make an ATOT significance calculator... does anybody know where the original formula is?

 

[hans007]

i can program well in C and C++ but i dont get exactly how this is gonna be fun. Its also gonna be really really hard to coordinate this with teams.

 

[rgwalt]

I am in if there is a FORTRAN segment.

Ryan

 

[Ameesh]

<< i can program well in C and C++ but i dont get exactly how this is gonna be fun. Its also gonna be really really hard to coordinate this with teams. >>



if you dont get it now, i dont think you'll ever get it, the ACM competition is like March Madness.

 

[gopunk]

<< i can program well in C and C++ but i dont get exactly how this is gonna be fun. Its also gonna be really really hard to coordinate this with teams. >>



not fun because it's hard to coordinate, or not fun because programming is inherently not fun for a competition?

 

[hans007]

oh that acm thing. i got some emails at school for it. some guys tried to get a bunch of us to do it from the engineering club. i think acm means association of computing machines or something like that. do you have any examples of what they ahve to program in the contest, i'm just curious.

 

[singh]

I got an idea... lets have a puzzle or something that you have to solve using a program (in any language). Like have a (relatively) simple encrypted string that you have to decode. Whoever does it first, wins

Something that's independent of the language would be nice.

 

[Bluga]

<< oh that acm thing. i got some emails at school for it. some guys tried to get a bunch of us to do it from the engineering club. i think acm means association of computing machines or something like that. do you have any examples of what they ahve to program in the contest, i'm just curious. >>



Very tough questions

 

[Juniper]

Can we have it after the 2nd of May? Thats when my exams are over, after which Ill be super free!!!

I can only program in Java though My C sucks and Im learning C# now and then.

 

[dude8604]

<< i think i will make an ATOT significance calculator... does anybody know where the original formula is? >>



When someone had a thread about that, I made a c++ program to calculate it. I think I still have it somewhere...

But as for the real topic of this thread, I think a programming competition would be cool, but it might be better to work on something together. Maybe an alternative OS ?

But seriously, we could work together and make a good program. I'm sure that we could make a good program...

 

[hans007]

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<< oh that acm thing. i got some emails at school for it. some guys tried to get a bunch of us to do it from the engineering club. i think acm means association of computing machines or something like that. do you have any examples of what they ahve to program in the contest, i'm just curious. >>



Very tough questions >>

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oh man.... i read that question. though i can see how i'd go about doing it, it seems just like one of my CS projects for class. I couldnt imagine enjoying doing that. i suppose its the competition that makes it fun.

 

[XZeroII]

I would be interested, but maybe we should have a large competition (as suggested earlier) with maybe 3 problem that people can work on. On having to do with Data, one with Graphics, and one with something else and you could use any language you want and team up with anyone to create the best app you could. Then we would have judges to determine who would win. The winner might be entitled to something or another. I think that would be fun and more feasible than one huge project. If anyone is serious about this, I could come up with three different problems. The problems would be sufficiently different so that people with different specialties could participate. Maybe something with data, graphics, then web design or something. How does that sound?

 

[GermyBoy]

Like who can make the most malicious computer worms? LOL, now that would be super annoying.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

The site I posted works with several programming languages, including C++, Java and Pascal.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

How about entering ATOT as competitor for next year?

 

[Sir Fredrick]

This thread inspired me to try to solve this problem. My program works for any test data I can come up with, but it's being rejected by the judge. Can anyone come up with some good test data that might make my program put out a wrong answer? Thanks.

I'll post my code if need be.

 

[dude8604]

<< How about entering ATOT as competitor for next year? >>


that might be a good idea...but what is the ioccc competition?