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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