[Idea][Discussion] Programming Challenges.

Alright, this is nowhere near official yet, however I just wanted some feedback from you guys on whether anyone would actually be interested in this.

Basically, I'm jacking @Hell_Demon's programming contest idea, and bringing it to the Coders Lounge.

The tasks will be more of a logical thinking challenge as well as programming ability. Points are awarded for creativity and originality of the solution as well as efficiency.

Here's one of the previous contests:

http://www.mpgh.net/forum/31-c-c/230...9-discuss.html

As you can see it's more about logical thinking than uber 1337 programming skillz, so anyone can enter!
If we go ahead with this I'll post a new question every sunday evening around 7pm (GMT+8) and applications will close exactly a week later. I know VBOTW sorta failed in the past, so I'm hoping a more "direct" idea will work better.

I haven't yet spoken to NextGen about this (although he's no longer directly affiliated with the section, he belongs here) So between us we will think up some kind of sexy reward (a nice sig or something).

DISKUSS.

Any prizes? :P

Originally Posted by freedompeace

Any prizes? :P

My congratulations. Should be enough for anyone

Originally Posted by SubCub

Nata......

Any reason...? If you're posting yes/no I expect a reason, not just +1 postcount.

EDIT: 5 mins and I'm just going to remove that post as spam

Please, can we stay on topic? I don't wanna be the post Nazi new minion, but soon I'm going to have no choice but to remove our posts.

Originally Posted by Jason

Please, can we stay on topic? I don't wanna be the post Nazi new minion, but soon I'm going to have no choice but to remove our posts.

Sure. Don't worry !

We already had one and it failed. Do we need to go over this?

Originally Posted by mnpeepno2

We already had one and it failed. Do we need to go over this?

Well, I kinda agree. Kids here don't go over injectors and spammers.

Originally Posted by mnpeepno2

We already had one and it failed. Do we need to go over this?

No, we didn't. We had a VBOTW system, which was based around very general "ideas" this is a set task (if you'd even bothered to open the link I added to the main post) and the most efficient way to complete it using your knowledge of Visual Basic. I agree this may never take off because it's not a spammer/browser/injector, but personally I enjoy logic challenges, I wanted to see if anyone else was keen.

This should be General, and not language specified... This contest should be in Coders Lounge instead of VB.NET, or C++, or w/e...

just my 2 cents

EDIT: Ofc it would be better to "compete" with people using the same language but... There is not enough people for it.

Originally Posted by Brinuz

I agree mutch.

Originally Posted by Brinuz

Yeah I think it would be better in the coders lounge, tried to give my section a leg-up first

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Oh well, i'll move the thread to the coders lounge. Let's get some hype!

The same is sticking 2 of your fingers in the ass, and then smell them. Thats the same.

VBOTW = Windows Application
This = Algorithm to do something funny

Originally Posted by Brinuz

The same is sticking 2 of your fingers in the ass, and then smell them. Thats the same.

VBOTW = Windows Application
This = Algorithm to do something funny

Finally. Someone with sense!

Do challenges with the @NextGen1 Post of Project Ideas..But advanced..

[Idea][Discussion] Programming Challenges.

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