I like the idea and the less work I would have to do to make it happen the better. This means that your ideas for contests are key. Ideally if someone else (possibly the one who suggested the contest) graded/scored them that would be great.
I see several different types of contests
- Game oriented: Tournament type of setup for scoring. I think of nate and my AI class where we had to do that sort of thing with kalah. Each player could have a class which had a selectMove method. A game controller would then keep track of board position,score, and check validity of moves.
- Level of correctness. Given a problem which program outputs the most correct answers. Benchmark them to break ties.
- Subjective: ie Obfuscated Code or Perl Poetry.... which one is coolest? Regular voting would probably work... although we'd probably want to limit the time which people could vote on code... possibly how many votes a user got for a given contest... we would probably also want to hide the identity of the author of the code.
- Perl Golf: shortest code that solves a particular problem wins
Then there are just the questions of how code is submitted? Who can see submissions and when? How does scoring work for a particular contest?
vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu
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