24-hour Programming Contest

bigboyofeq writes "The Budapest University of Technology and Economics is hosting the 3rd 24-hour programming contest. For the first time, it's open for teams from all over the world. The winner team gets 4000 Euros, so it's worth a look. When I took a look at the pictures of the previous years, I got really excited. They are available here (comments are in Hungarian)."

winner

[seann]

gets a date with Her [sch.bme.hu].

Re:winner

[DarkKnightRadick]

Now that's a prize I wouldn't mind having. ;)

Re:winner

[Sibelius]

OMG, I am so going back this summer. :)

Here are some of the comments translated:

1. "Does anyone know her number?"
2. #...
3. "We tried calling Saturday night, but she spent an hour and half talking on the phone in front of the door."
4. "It would be worth entering the contest just for this lady..."
5. "... but of course, I'll enter the next time."

YES! I HAVE FINALLY USED MY HUNGARIAN SKILLZ TO CONTRIBUTE TO SLASHDOT! (let me cherish this moment because I'm sure it'll never happen again)

Re:Woo!

[DarkKnightRadick]

flaimbait?

How funny is it...

[malakai]

that this picture here [sch.bme.hu] has threee times as many hits on it than the rest of the site (pre slashdotting too).

I bet she's just one of the caterers too.

-Malakai

Re:How funny is it...

[RaboKrabekian]

If memory serves, she was the prize to the winners of the 1993 contest.

Re:How funny is it...

[elmegil]

And here, everyone thought geeks weren't the same sexist assholes as the rest of the males around.

Do it in Perl

[You're All Wrong]

Whatever it is, it'll only take 20 minutes to knock up in perl,
won't it? Sure, it'll be 10 lines of line noise that no one can
understand, but that doesn't matter.

YAW.

Do it in whatever

[MattCohn.com]

One of the things I like about this contest is that they don't restrict you to a style/language of programming. Whatever it is, it'll be done in the team's prefered language. It might be on Windows, Linux, MacOS (uhhhhg), Unix, some Sun box, or anything. And it might be done in anything from Perl, to PHP, to VB, to C, to C++, to Assembly, to Python, to Fortran, to QBASIC. When you don't hold biasses over people's prefered languages, you'll see that more and better stuff gets done.

Re:Do it in Perl

[foo1752]

it'll only take 20 minutes to knock up in perl.

I don't know about you, I'm not planning on knocking up who ever this [sch.bme.hu] is using Perl... and its probably not going to take me 20 minutes, either!

Hmmm

[Timesprout]

When I took a look at the pictures of the previous years, I got really excited.

You obviously dont get out much

brainstorming on the spot

[utslive]

If geniuses and top-notch programmers are expected to come, then how are people like me going to compete with them? :) I think you can really see people put sweats out while coding. :)

Re:come all

[benedek]

Hi All!

It was our best intention to create a problem not solvable in 24 hour. If everyone can solve it, it is more than difficult to pick the best teams.

This year's task (again) will be completly different from last year's problem set, so be prepared ;). But our goal is the same: we specify only the goal to be solved, not the tools or the platform...

Cheers,

Balzs Benedek - chief organizer
[e-mail]