Date   : Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:36:13 +0000
From   : "C Davies" <davies_@...>
Subject: Re: Competitions?

From:  "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
To:  bbc-micro@...
Subject:  Re: [BBC-Micro] Competitions?
Date:  Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:12:15 +0100 (BST)
>There's been a lot of apathy regarding this, only a few people were
>interested.  I think I'll take over this very soon and start submitting
>progress of a program.  I think third-party programming toolslike
>Graphics Extension, Speech should be allowed for people of all
>abilities to participate.  Not everyone's a quadratic mathamatician you
>know!!
>
>Fiaz.

As with so many others, I don't have too much spare time to devote to this.  
I do, however, like the idea of spending an hour or two every now and then 
tinkering away on the BBC.  (Though technically it's more likely to be 
tinkering away on an emulator as I don't have enough office space to set up 
the old Master Turbo).  I'm not too bothered about using third party tools 
but have no objection if other people wanted to do so.

I think that Neill's suggestion of a sudoku solver is a good one.  It 
wouldn't take too much time to put together a basic program and judging 
entries on speed and algorithm elegance is a nice idea.  After all, that's 
what coding was all about in the good old days when we didn't have megabytes 
to spare and cpu speed wasn't measured in gigahertz (or even megahertz come 
to that).

Regards,

Cliff