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- A Contest?
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- Someone suggested we have a little programming contest. Well, if you
- ever wanted it, here it is...The program for part 10 of my tutorial!
- I have nothing tangible to offer, but I can offer this -- notoriety
- as doing really well in Pascal programming with an announcement in
- comp.lang.pascal.borland and comp.lang.pascal.misc, as well as mention
- in one of these pascal tutorials. The most correct program that covers
- all stated goals in the program description will win, as judged by me,
- and any other authority which wishes to take the time out. Entries
- should be e-mailed to ggrotz@2sprint.net. My rules for submissions:
- 1) This program MUST be done entirely in Turbo Pascal, the
- focus of the tutorial.
- 2) I will take and consider the first 10 entries. If your entry
- doesn't compile properly on my system, I will reject it
- immediately.
- 3) An entry should be sent to me as a ZIP file with unit source,
- main source, and any include files included in there.
- 4) Name the file as <youremailaddress>.ZIP so you won't be overwriting
- other submissions, and making me have to disqualify you immediately.
-
- Judging (in order of elimination):
- 1) I will take the first 10 entries that I get that will compile
- on my system without errors, before Feb 20th, 1996. I use
- Turbo Pascal 7.
- 2) Programs will be eliminated first, if they crash my system in
- trying to run them after I compile them.
- 3) Next, I will check them to see how well the author adhered to
- the program description. For example, it will specifically
- call for usage of an include file, coding an EMS overlay system
- for it, and usage of an untyped binary file. If any of these
- things are not followed, your program will be eliminated.
- Also, note that the program must be written entirely in TP
- code...no ASSEMBLER!!!!!!!
- 4) I will send an e-mail notification if your program is eliminated
- for any of the three reasons above. After that, I will run your
- program against a standardized data file. I will provide you
- a sample data file, but the final one to be run against programs
- will be a different one. Both will be in the same format listed
- in the program description. Both data files will stress all 14
- requisites in data being perfect.
- 5) The final judging will be based on accuracy of the program.
- The program involves picking errors out of data, so it will
- be very quantitative in nature. The program that is the most
- perfect will win. In the event of a tie, I will look at
- program length to determine the winner.
-
- Oh, yeah. My sample of this program will not be posted until
- the end of this contest. Don't think this program is too difficult,
- because actually, it is not. There is just a lot of details, and it
- is tedious. I wanted to create a challenging thing for this contest
- that for knowledge sake that someone following the tutorial could handle.
- Most of this program stresses planning, as described in part 9, the
- new parts are only the overlays, include files, and the writes to the
- binary data file. Besides that, it's mainly rudimentary things (IFs,
- Case statements, and string/number conversions...)
-
- Have fun and good luck!!!!
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