Get Ready for For The 7th ICFP Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 28, 2004 @02:49AM from the pencils-sharpened dept.

nate writes "Convinced your favorite programming language provides unbeatable productivity? Convinced you and your friends are world-class programmers? If so, we're providing you the opportunity to prove it! We are pleased to announce the 7th ICFP Programming Contest to be held in conjunction with ICFP 2004. All programmers are invited to enter the contest, either individually or in teams; we especially encourage students to enter. You may use any programming language (or combination of languages) to show your skill." Read on below for the details.

"On Friday, 4 June at 12:00 Noon (EDT), we will publish a challenge task on the Web site and by e-mail to the contest mailing list. Teams will have 72 hours until Monday, 7 June 12:00 Noon (EDT) to implement a program to perform this task and submit it to the contest judges. We have designed the contest for direct, head-to-head comparison of language technology and programming skill. We have a range of prizes including cash awards and, of course, unlimited bragging rights for the winners.

Previous contests included: 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998."

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Re:The problem with contests... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-28 06:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

This statement is wildly off base. You are asking about what makes a better software engineer. Computer science and software engineering are not one in the same, and are in fact quite different arts. Software engineering is about defect maintaince and implementing simple features, and rarely gets into the areas of algorithms or higher thought... I'll take someone who can think versus a corporate drone anyway!