Re: Competition co-ordination

Anand Kumria (akumria@nospam.socs.uts.EDU.AU)
Tue, 22 Mar 1994 12:01:00 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 22 Mar 1994, Ryan Shelswell wrote:

> > 'Twould have been interesting to see how far the others go. Perhaps we could
> > just run a UTS programming contest anyway, as training -- the elec eng/
> > comp. eng/whatever students would (I'm sure) make for interesting
> > competition. More like the real contest environment.

How so?, Most first years couldn't compete -- this shortens the pool of
available talent anyways.

> BTW, this is *exactly* what we did last year. We did actually have entrants
> from elec-eng, as well, but they dropped out. Well, he did - it was Matthew
> Gream. I guess more time -> more advertising -> more entrants this year.

Yeah -- again, this is really for someone NOT in first year -- your
advertising drive was for people to buy TFM was it not. Do you expect them
to be able to write code (most of them are probably do EIFFEL). What
programming language does the competition allow?

> >From what I've heard about the difficulty and content of some of the eng.
> courses, they'll probably beat most of the CompScis :-) (Ryan throws down
> gauntlet).

Unfortunatley too true ...

regards,

Anand.

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