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Can you show us that game, Sterling?
(and as a side note, I agree completely with you: those judges are always biased and let the first trees to hide the rest of the forest).
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(corrections from my younger brother):
1. He won school, got 4th in regional (where the GPA calculator got 1st), and didn't place in state (where the reindexing algorithm won).
2. The state judges he talked to were FORTRAN (a language more obsolete than QBASIC) programmers with little experience. He didn't think the regional judges were programmers at all.
3. He programmed this in cooperation with another programmer. He gave the other guy credit and only talked about the parts he wrote. (at this point most of the code was his anyway, and he had the other guys permission to show it in the fair)
Sorry na_th_an, he's too lazy to get me a copy of it right now. (apparently there are no copies of it online right now)
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Well, good luck with that science project, but you really should fix that code up...
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Quote:Spaces are a waste of bytes.
Y'know, I actually agree when I'm designing webpages (wierd, eh?), but not when coding. I'm all into the space-saving stuff when others on 56Ks may have to download it, but I don't mind a bit of whitespace in code.
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Do they have HTML editors that can display it in beautified form and save it to and load it from stripped down form? That would be cool, best of both worlds.
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I think many web authoring apps can do this. I have seen such facility in Adobe Golive and I think I recall it in Dreamweaber, though I don't use any of those.
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Its really bad that people view basic a dumb language and people dont take programs written in qb seriously :???:
Their response to a person using qb is: Qb? :roll: ok, good, good, keep it up :wink:
Anyway, Tery I too agree, you need to see more source code and learn better methods of doing stuff. Brevity is better :rotfl:
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Quote:(and as a side note, I agree completely with you: those judges are always biased and let the first trees to hide the rest of the forest).
I'd like to take issue with this!!! When I was a grad student (at a prominent US university)(in a field unrelated to computers...chemistry, if you must know), I was a judge for a regional science fair for 3 years. This was volunteer work...circa 4 hrs each time. Our fair had, I would estimate, something like 2000 displays...with teams of 4-6 judges reviewing each category...with each judge covering 2-3 out of the many categories. After interviewing (and taking notes on) the 20 or so displays that I was to judge, I gathered in a room with the other judges for the particular category to rank the contestants. I can say, with emphatisism (if that is a word), that I saw no bias, and that the judges were universally competent to judge the elementary to high-school projects that were presented. Just one "Science Fair" judge's opinion.
Cheers
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Thanks Mango, its very good to know that exceptions always exist! Anyway, we were talking about the general outlook towards qb. :roll:
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Well... If U compare qbstuff and the latest 3d technology....
xpect to see some great stuff from us...
