Hello everyone, PyCon apac just got over and it was fun. One of the things that happened here was an online programming contest during the last one hour before the event closed. People basically had to log in to a site on appengine and take a series of questions online. It was two rounds and the first guy to finish won an ipad. I found it quite fun and all the participants enjoyed it as well. It added some colour to the event and needless to say, the ipad prize made people code quite fast. I was wondering if we could organise something similar to this in India for the conference? The prize is not a problem. A netbook these days costs around 20k and we can have a sponsor for that if necessary. Do you think it would work? Would it be a good idea? Just in case the question comes up, the contest application was in Python (Django specifically) and hosted on Google app engine so that wasn't an issue. The guys who ran it here were in Bangalore for a while so they might be willing to conduct it here as well. Comments/ideas/thoughts? Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
Programming contest sounds fun to me. I'm sure any student will love it. +1 from my side. What type of problems were you given between ? On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, PyCon apac just got over and it was fun.
One of the things that happened here was an online programming contest during the last one hour before the event closed. People basically had to log in to a site on appengine and take a series of questions online. It was two rounds and the first guy to finish won an ipad.
I found it quite fun and all the participants enjoyed it as well. It added some colour to the event and needless to say, the ipad prize made people code quite fast.
I was wondering if we could organise something similar to this in India for the conference? The prize is not a problem. A netbook these days costs around 20k and we can have a sponsor for that if necessary. Do you think it would work? Would it be a good idea?
Just in case the question comes up, the contest application was in Python (Django specifically) and hosted on Google app engine so that wasn't an issue. The guys who ran it here were in Bangalore for a while so they might be willing to conduct it here as well.
Comments/ideas/thoughts?
Thanks
-- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat@gmail.com>wrote:
Programming contest sounds fun to me. I'm sure any student will love it. +1 from my side.
What type of problems were you given between ?
Simple ones really. The site is here http://singpath.appspot.com/ It wasn't about *really* challenging problems. It was about the time limit and the way they MCed the whole thing that made it fun. I thought it was quite cool. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
+1 for programming contest On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat@gmail.com>wrote:
Programming contest sounds fun to me. I'm sure any student will love it. +1 from my side.
What type of problems were you given between ?
Simple ones really. The site is here http://singpath.appspot.com/
It wasn't about *really* challenging problems. It was about the time limit and the way they MCed the whole thing that made it fun. I thought it was quite cool.
-- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
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OT - SingPath seems very similar to PyKata!, most probably built over it. Hmm interesting, the author thanks David MacQuigg but hardly mentions PyKata.
+1 for programming contest. students in my college will be excited . On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Abhishek Mishra <ideamonk@gmail.com> wrote:
OT - SingPath seems very similar to PyKata!, most probably built over it. Hmm interesting, the author thanks David MacQuigg but hardly mentions PyKata.
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Well, it looks like the student crowd thinks it's a good idea. I think it's neat too so one old man for it. Any other opinions? On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM, anil kumar <anil.kumar.848@gmail.com>wrote:
+1 for programming contest. students in my college will be excited .
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Abhishek Mishra <ideamonk@gmail.com>wrote:
OT - SingPath seems very similar to PyKata!, most probably built over it. Hmm interesting, the author thanks David MacQuigg but hardly mentions PyKata.
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-- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
It's a nice idea i am up for it. +1 -- Kapil Dua Skype: mitr2mitr IRC: kaps Mobile: +919620249032 Don't be irreplaceable, If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:32:10PM +0800, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
** One of the things that happened here was an online programming contest during the last one hour before the event closed. People basically had to log in to a site on appengine and take a series of questions online. It was two rounds and the first guy to finish won an ipad.
** I found it quite fun and all the participants enjoyed it as well. It added some colour to the event and needless to say, the ipad prize made people code quite fast.
** I was wondering if we could organise something similar to this in India for the conference? The prize is not a problem. A netbook these days costs around 20k and we can have a sponsor for that if necessary. Do you think it would work? Would it be a good idea?
* Just in case the question comes up, the contest application was in Python (Django specifically) and hosted on Google app engine so that wasn't an issue. The guys who ran it here were in Bangalore for a while so they might be willing to conduct it here as well.
Comments/ideas/thoughts?
A few other ideas - * We can have a hackday which starts at 5PM , Sep 25 and ends at 5PM Sep 26. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_Day] * Or we can have something like - http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/Innovation+Technology+Awards?_s=jqPXQXjkj3u9Qr9p&_k=mH--XhrV&_n&30 * Or something like - http://pdxfoscon.org/competition The last 2 of these are not something created during the conference. This has the advantage that the contestants would have thought really hard about the work being presented.
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Abhishek Mishra -
anil kumar -
Kapsicum -
Noufal Ibrahim -
Pradip P Caulagi -
Shashwat Anand