Deadlock presentation outcome

Georg Wrede georg at nospam.org
Tue May 15 05:27:44 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> 
>>> In the end, it turned out that the jury didn't like computer games 
>>> very much... Maths doctors & professors == bad jury for a game 
>>> programming team. So we scored 2nd, after a project which basically 
>>> combined some GPS stuff thru bluetooth and Google Maps... Which, 
>>> according to 80% of my univ mates was... ridiculous.
>>
>>
>> Don't feel bad.  I had the same experience - I wrote a game with a 
>> full fledged scripting language built in, years ago when I was in high 
>> school.  It was a lot of lines, and represented a lot of work.
>>
>> I lost to a GPA calculator.  This was a program where you typed in 
>> your grades and it told you your average.  It was like 200 lines or 
>> something silly like that.
> 
> 
> Wow!  That's a pretty impressive feat of software engineering to turn a 
> 5-line program into 200 lines!

Probably 198 lines of GUI code and 2 lines of program logic! :-)



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