Programming comp #1

[Pacifist]

In celebration of the new forum i propose a competition to decide the pecking order for the programmers here

The objective:
Create a noughts and crosses game. It can be 1 or 2 player but there will be extra marks if you include an AI. Any programming language will be accepted.
Marks are awarded as follows.

Functionality: (the simple fact that it does what it's supposed to)
40 marks

Method: (the way you made it do what it was supposed to)
20 marks

Simplicity of the code: (how easy the code is to read - use comments people)
20 marks

Portability: (if it's not in Visual Basic you'll get some marks here)
15 marks

Interface: (I don't really care if i have to type the co-ordinates of where i'm moving in)
5 marks

Total marks 100

I will not be entering the competition.
The winner will be announced on the 1st Sept.

[othy]

Good idea, though the topic is hardly challenging.

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othy

[Tanus]

Very good idea, I'll see what I can come up with.

[Shot_guN]

Are there any prizes?

[Geo]

Ill do it. Ill try and knock up something tonight.

Maybe the prize should be the winner gets to pick and judge the next comp.

[Hadamona]

I would give it a go if I knew more than just write a program to say "Hello World!"

[Pacifist]

Originally posted by Shot_guN
Are there any prizes?

Respect

Oh and the winner can judge the next comp as Geo said

[Cryogenic]

I'll give it a go as well I need to touch up my Java skills a little i reckon

[mpot]

So how are you going to ensure no-one is submitting code ripped from some website?

I'm sure there's numerous code examples for noughts and crosses.

BTW, I think the user interace should be worth a lot more than 5 points. A bad user interface can really ruin a good piece of software, and there are lots of people out there coding really bad interfaces....so people coding a decent user interface should be rewarded.

Cheers,
Martin.

[Imitation]

Originally posted by othy
Good idea, though the topic is hardly challenging.

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othy

As my mum would say... you should get 100% then shouldn't you

[lordskippy]

Er I believe this is one of the tasks that is set in the Year 12 curriculum of Software Design and Development at school is it not?

Problem is exactly the same, devise a noughts and crosses game, and so is the marking scale, same as what my friend had the other week on a piece of paper from class...

I hope you're not trying to get someone to code it for you?

[Pacifist]

I'm in Uni (3rd year IT), i didn't realise this is part of the Yr.12 curiculum,
it was just the first example of a program i thought up
i truly created the marking scale by myself too, seems the logical way to do it

[loko]

hehehe...

I believe this to be a current AI assignment... Unless you get stuck with the stupid genetic algorithm stuff (ie.. like i did.. )

[mark|]

i've got an 80% version on my hdd already from ages ago

just needs the ai and rules implemented

[Pacifist]

Originally posted by mpot
So how are you going to ensure no-one is submitting code ripped from some website?

I'll look around and find all the examples of noughts and crosses, although i don't think anyone would bother just ripping it and sending it here. A true programmer should enjoy making a simple game.

Originally posted by mpot
BTW, I think the user interace should be worth a lot more than 5 points. A bad user interface can really ruin a good piece of software, and there are lots of people out there coding really bad interfaces....so people coding a decent user interface should be rewarded.

Interface is basically whether the user uses a mouse to click the box or types a co-ordinate for the box.
If people want to program a console version i won't mind if it doesn't have mouse support.

If you don't have some sort of representation of where the noughts and crosses currently are however that will come under functionality.