Smalltalk Solutions 2008 Coding Contest

From Niall Ross - there will be more information available shortly on
my blog:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView

and on the STIC site:

http://www.stic.st

This year's Smalltalk Coding Contest is approaching, perhaps faster
than you
think. :-)

In the past, the time allowed for the Smalltalk Coding Competition
entry
task has been short:

- 2 days for Alan's questionnaire web app in 2005

- 63 hours for Michael's Pong in 2006

- 10 days, including 2 wends, for Andres memory game in 2007

Not everyone has a schedule that lets them enter when the time window
is
short. I have decided to go for a longer timespan.  The contest entry
task
will be announced on Monday March 10th at 20:00 GMT on www.stic.st/[WEBREF].
You then have the rest of the next 3 months to complete it.  Solutions
must
be submitted by Friday May 30th 12:00 GMT.

A longer timescale does not mean a proportionately more challenging
task
(the idea is to let you complete it in the time without giving up your
day
job or your holidays) though I trust doing it well will prove a
challenge.

This year's Smalltalk Coding Contest is approaching, perhaps faster than you
think. :-)

In the past, the time allowed for the Smalltalk Coding Competition entry
task has been short:

- 2 days for Alan's questionnaire web app in 2005

- 63 hours for Michael's Pong in 2006

- 10 days, including 2 wends, for Andres memory game in 2007

Not everyone has a schedule that lets them enter when the time window is
short. I have decided to go for a longer timespan.  The contest entry task
will be announced on Monday March 10th at 20:00 GMT on http://www.stic.st.
You then have the rest of the next 3 months to complete it.  Solutions must
be submitted by Friday May 30th 12:00 GMT.

A longer timescale does not mean a proportionately more challenging task
(the idea is to let you complete it in the time without giving up your day
job or your holidays) though I trust doing it well will prove a challenge.

More information will appear soon on Jim's blog:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView

and the STIC site:

http://www.stic.st

Niall Ross

Finalists in the coding contest count as speakers for attending Smalltalk
Solutions. The supremely confident can register as speakers now. For
everyone else, register normally;  if you make the final, you will get the
difference back at the conference.

See the contest blog

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/niall/blogView

for all the contest details, hints on how to approach the problem, and
answers to contestants' questions.

Two months to go to completion;  good luck all!

Niall Ross