Anyone interested for another CW challenge? (Contest 3 ideas walriistorming)

b/Contests publicado por u/caleb1997 February 17, 2016, 01:33:31 PM

Anyone interested for another CW challenge? (Contest 3 ideas walriistorming)

Over at Cemetech, they are doing small contests based on replacing built-in calculator functions. The one that they are doing right now involves SortA( and SortD(. The trick is to create a program that can sort a list of 256 items without using those two commands. Why don't we do something like that? My vote would be going for doing the mean (average) of a list, without using the built-in command to do it. What do you people think? Should we do something like this?

Rewards could be given out as userbar sigs.

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u/aetios February 17, 2016, 01:36:59 PM

That kind of feels like stealing ideas. Code golfing would be cool though, but I'd like a restriction on the language; not only for fairness but also to make people familiar with new languages

u/caleb1997 February 17, 2016, 01:50:43 PM

Ok then. Let's do code golfing. Perhaps a challenge every week or so?

Any ideas on what challenge #1 should be?

u/aetios February 17, 2016, 02:08:15 PM

Make a program that converts any binary string to a hexadecimal string and print it on the screen. The binary string can be in any form: a matrix, a string, or anything else that can store something binary. The binary string should be taken in via ANS.
Categories are size and speed, language is TI-Basic. Deadline is next week on wednesday, 23:59:59 UTC ( that is, the night between wednesday and thursday)
Deadline in other time zones:
CET: 00:59:59, thursday.
EST: 17:59:59, wednesday.

u/Snektron February 17, 2016, 02:27:52 PM

Quote from: caleb1997 on February 17, 2016, 01:33:31 PM
Over at Cemetech, they are doing small contests based on replacing built-in calculator functions. The one that they are doing right now involves SortA( and SortD(. The trick is to create a program that can sort a list of 256 items without using those two commands. Why don't we do something like that? My vote would be going for doing the mean (average) of a list, without using the built-in command to do it. What do you people think? Should we do something like this?

Rewards could be given out as userbar sigs.

Seems like a cool plan, but the last codegolfs we had always died out after a few weeks

Last Edit: February 17, 2016, 02:34:19 PM by Cumred_Snektron

u/aetios February 17, 2016, 02:37:05 PM

Eventually we'll have a code golf reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 17, 2016, 05:36:33 PM

My opinion is that the TI community has been oversaturated with mini-contests oriented towards code-golf lately. I don't think restarting a 3rd Code Golf reboot or CWick Contests now would be very successful, so it would definitively have to be something different.

One idea I had for CW was a contest where we take one of my old BASIC game code, then people optimize its programs, one by one. It wouldn't necessarily be a contest per-SE, but it might still be fun. Or we could have RPG-oriented contests where people create the best possible lightning magic animation they can, or other spells.

u/aetios February 17, 2016, 06:26:59 PM

You're right, there are too many contests. It would be cool if we had a thing where we can work 'interactively' on projects, eg with those type together things online.

u/caleb1997 February 17, 2016, 07:27:16 PM

Quote from: aeTIos on February 17, 2016, 06:26:59 PM
You're right, there are too many contests. It would be cool if we had a thing where we can work 'interactively' on projects, eg with those type together things online.

Google Docs lets up to 8 people work on the same document at the same time.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 17, 2016, 11:36:59 PM

If it happens on Google doc or some online program editor (maybe the C editor on TI-Planet for TI-84+CE games?), then it would be nice to cross-post updates here, though, for more visibility.

u/c4ooo February 17, 2016, 11:46:05 PM

Hey hey hey dont pull hte carpet from under me

* c4ooo runs

Pimath said he had considered a reboot reboot, but no solid plans.
A thing ime considering is making a mega copy & paste of all the code golfs in one topic, and allowing people to submit entries for past challenges.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 18, 2016, 02:17:24 AM

Yeah I was just pointing out, in case you guys wonder why a reboot of the reboot isn't as successful. Right now Omni has a bit more activity than last Summer from what I could gather, but it depends if people got bored of Code Golf contests or not. And in CW case a lot of CW users participated to Code Golf. And I see. that could be an idea. It's always better to try new stuff sometimes.