RE: Contest Idea
- Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Nov 05, 2002
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... I can foresee a long thread developing here :) so I'll jump in early with my 2 cents ... * Which ever style of program is choosen for a contest, a percenatge of people will not be good in that area, or have little interest to create a program in that area. For example, in the first contest speed was a defining attribute so you could argue that people who created well structured code were at a disadvantage. * The rules of judging need to be clearly defined. For example: Will the best "graphics artist" win a graphical demo contest? Is it based on visual appearance? execution speed? source code? creativity? a combination of all? Will one person/a group of people/ or everyone who wishes be judges? * If exact results are required the task should be OS independant. * If creative results are required than let people choose the OS. * The use of external libraries needs to be defined. (Do you allow or don't you allow there use?) >From another point of view .... Should we discuss the "reason" for having another contest? * To encourage people to use Euphoria? * To improve how people use Euphoria? * To expose people to areas of computing they might not have studied? eg. encyption in contest 1 * To fill an area that is currently lacking in Euphoria? Libraries/tools/applications in a particular area? Personally I wouldn't like a graphics demo ... but might particapte if it's a full game. Anyway ... my those are my thoughts in no particular order. Ray Smith http://rays-web.com Chris Bensler wrote: > What about all the people who might not be graphically inclined? > How about the ones who only use DOS? They surely can't compare to > something written with OpenGL. Besides, MIC would blow all our socks > off! :P > > Chris >