Programming contest

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/30/04 9:07 PM, David Kwinter wrote:

> So long as the tasks don't involve compatibility issues, or are judged 
> solely on speed, Revolution could do well. I'd help a team for sure, 
> sounds like fun.

There are descriptions of previous contests in the History section of 
the web site if you want an idea of what to expect. All entries are 
submitted as text files. Here is last year's contest:

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/task.html

This required you to drive a simulated car around some simulated test 
tracks. The submission itself is a text dump of the commands given to 
the car. They then ran the trace through their own simulator, which 
reads the contents of the submitted entry. They do want to see the code, 
but they don't care what language it is in and the quality of the code 
does not affect who wins; the success of the code does.

This year's contest will be similar in that the entry will consist of a 
text file that solves whatever task they post. In last year's contest 
speed did count, but only because the goal was to make the car move as 
fast as possible. The speed would be due to the quality of the commands 
rather than the state of any particular computer.

There's more stuff in the History section. MIT started the contest some 
years ago. It looks like they've done a nice job eliminating things that 
are computer and language dependent, and focusing on the programming 
rather than the execution.


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> On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 07:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
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>> This sounds like something one of us (or a group of us) here might 
>> want to do:
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>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest/
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