LCD Contest Results are in!
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Dec 04, 2010
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This was our first contest and quite a bit of fun! Some have mentioned learning quite a bit about the standard library when searching for new methods to use to up their score (you can guess who that was when reading the results!). Anyway, I hope this will be the first of many and I look forward to discussion to follow about the submissions and contest in general. There have already been many comments on IRC about scoring and how it should really change in the future.
Now, a very notable point with the results... The timing of all the results were so close (down to the nano-second!) that awarding bonus points for the fastest wasn't practical. The benchmarking just isn't accurate enough. I'd run 2,000 iterations and it would award the point to user XYZ, run it again and this time it was ABC. Anyway, on with the scoring. Listed in order of score (Top -> Bottom)
| User | Score | Token # |
|---|---|---|
| mattlewis.ex | 57 | 2001 |
| euphoric.ex and euphoric.e | 14 | 1011 |
| Pete_E.ex | 9 | 289 |
I did create an entry jeremy_c.ex, but its not counted due to the fact I could have waited until everyone submitted theirs and then took the best from everyones for my own, but... I included it in the repo for examples sake since we only had three submissions this time around.
Some information about the results:
- Pete's achieved the goal in the smallest amount of code of all entries.
- CK's examples scale all the way down to 1x1, give it a try. This was not part of the requirement.
- Matt went overboard with optional features but for a reason... his example shows off quite a bit of 4.0 features/functions. 55 of his points were awarded for 4.0 construct and method use. These optional features include:
- Binary, Floating Point, Hex, Octal and Scientific output formats
- Different output format for digits (he calls 'pretty')
- Digit wrapping for your console
Everyone's source code can be viewed, downloaded, played with and tweaked for learning. They are available in our new contesting repository: hg:contest/file/default/2010-12-04-lcd. You can use the left menu options zip, gz or bz2 on the repository browser to download all of the entires.
Thank you for all who submitted entries. It was a good time with lots of learning. We will have another contest after the release of RC2 which is slated for Dec 8th.
Jeremy
