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SonicBritContests
Wow its been quiet here for a while, how about some different types of contests. smallest number of lines to implement 1. Font Routine 2. Drawing a Window a. Supporting Themes b. Movable Windows 3. Handling Events 4. Scripting Etc. And I need to actually enter too :P		2009-07-1411:32 AM
BrandonRe:Contests
Number of lines is misleading, and leads to poor coding, I think file size in bytes is a slightly better metric		2009-07-1412:45 PM
pharoahRe:Contests
Agreed, but counting the number of bytes in a source file is just as bad. Sure you have line breaks, but you also will have one letter variable names and other meaningless garbage. I think the best metric would be executable size, but I have no idea how to optimize that and I doubt most people here do either.		2009-07-141:36 PM
SonicBritRe:Contests
Sadly with qbasic I wouldnt know, could maybe do some profiling on certain instructions, or check out a disassembly from an .obj (In asm I know how certain things work better) With regard to number of lines, I was just going with same theme as the last contest. Maybe we should just choose a specific aspect of a gui (no number of lines crap) and go with that for a contest?		2009-07-142:21 PM
BrandonRe:Contests
I'm up for anything that will get entries, I should be able to enter myself.		2009-07-142:27 PM
rCXRe:Contests
[b]Brandon wrote:[/b] [quote]Number of lines is misleading, and leads to poor coding, I think file size in bytes is a slightly better metric[/quote] Of course, then everyone would either use inline asm or an assembler.		2009-07-1411:24 PM
SonicBritRe:Contests
Perhaps we should make it application specific? Like design a paint program, or an editor?		2009-07-1511:47 PM
ksrRe:Contests
I don't know, I quite like the x-line competitions, it gives you a restriction which means you have to be a bit more creative with your solutions. But I say this because I don't think competitions are really about writing the neatest code - more about how much cool stuff you can cram in :P		2009-07-167:47 AM
BrandonRe:Contests
My problem with application specific contests is that it can cut down on creativity, the more rules the contest has, the less creative the programmer can be. The other problem with app specific apps is that developers will want the app to be for their GUI, so if their GUI uses a library, it makes it less fair, I think?		2009-07-169:17 AM
pharoahRe:Contests
I think we should have a scripter contest, I like writing scripters :). The question is, does anyone else?		2009-07-173:25 PM
BrandonRe:Contests
I don't mind it, I might write one for a contest :P		2009-07-174:25 PM
Re:Contests
I started work on a scripting GUI, Geode, or Pilot, I've designed the scripting language, the formulas, and the layout, I'm getting my friends to help with the Layout & Apps. Maybe a team contest, if we take weeks sorting it out its going to be boring quite quickly, just whip up some idea and use it. :woohoo:		2009-07-181:44 AM

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