Deadlock presentation outcome

Unknown W. Brackets unknown at simplemachines.org
Tue May 15 07:31:03 PDT 2007


Yes, that is accurate... but maybe it wasn't quite 200 lines.  It was 
short anyway.  And definitely nothing impressive about its code.

-[Unknown]


Georg Wrede wrote:
> 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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