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Programming Challenges for Mac Developers

Posted by pudge on from the i-dev-you-dev-we-all-dev dept.

Carlos Camacho writes "iDevGames, a Macintosh Game Developer's Site has started issuing small programming challenges to Mac developers. The first challenge just wrapped up and the result is two nifty apps. The source code for both apps, and all apps entered into the programming challenges, will be released as open source. The next challenge has added an extra day, so developers have 72 hours. The focus is on creating an application to demonstrate 'A* pathfinding.'"

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  1. Re:sounds like they are to lazy to do it themselve by mrgeometry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps they are hoping to get a variety of examples so newbies can see more than one implementation? Also, perhaps they want to give their readers something "fun" to do... I can see how some people would enjoy having a little mini-challenge every now and then, and they will enter the contest; and other people are too busy or would rather spend their free time in other ways, and so they won't enter the contest... And that's fine.

    zach

  2. Meh. by Daleks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People need to think about their headlines before they submit them. I thought this was about the difficulties Mac programmers face in today's world.

  3. I'd like to suggest a challenge by Yarn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get working on porting OpenOffice.org to Aqua! The current ETA is 2005

    It'd save me *so* much time having to run around ensuring people don't have illegal copies of MS Office on their macs.

    At least with my PC users:
    a) The OpenOffice.org interface isn't glaringly different
    b) They can't just copy the MS office folder between machines.

    --
    -Yarn - Rio Karma: Excellent