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PHP Contest: Revenge of the Apple Eating Robots
Zack Coburn writes "The latest Codewalkers' PHP Coding Contest invites PHP programmers to write a script in PHP to interface with a judging library and play 'Apple Eating Robots,' a game based on the classic Unix console game called Robots. According to the contest description, the goal is 'to avoid robots, eat apples, and kill robots by forcing them to hit each other in order to get the highest score.' For judging, 'at least 100 rounds will be played. In the end, the sum of all points earned will determine the winner. In the case of a tie, the running time will be the tie-breaker.' According to an e-mail sent out to Codewalkers users, 'The
PHP Coding Contest is now in its third year since inception and touts $2,000 worth of prizes. The first ten places will earn a prize, so even if you
aren't the top winner, you have a chance at winning something.' Prizes for the current contest include Macromedia Studio MX, Zend Studio, PHPEd, and SourceGuardian Pro."
Heck, I know sources I can get the prize for free... offer something tangible why don't you.
Well, name recognition would be in it too, I guess. So one might be able to get a job coding PHP. Although, the standard things PHP is used for doesn't exactly require advanced AI-beating algorithms, it's more boring and tedious representation of data -- "wow, a forum, with comments..."
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
sod writing in code in assembler, its PHP from now on !!, all those big companies use it like Eba.. no Amazo.. uhm uhm well my friend uses it on his blog
Well, let's hope all they want is a little revenge, and not their come-uppence.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
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How exactly is this a prize? What are you going to do, cancel with your current ISP, transfer your website over to this place, wait a month, sign back up with your original ISP again, and transfer back?
One year's hosting, that would be a prize. One month? That's not a prize--that's a burden (and, obviously, just a promotional gimmick).
I hereby announce my own set of prizes for the 11th through the 20th place contestants. Each person placing 11th through 20th will have one free week's rent in an apartment, selected by me, on the opposite side of the country from their current residence, under the conditions that (1) they move all of their furniture in and unpack everything they own completely before the week is up, (2) they pack everything back up and move all of it back out by 5:00 PM the final day, (3) they sell their current residence to someone they don't know, and (4) they buy back their old place after the week is up.
As an alternative, I will also permit the winners to remain in their new apartments, AS LONG AS they pay me a $1000 stipend every six weeks.
Good luck, everybody!
1. Avoid robots
2. Eat apples
3. PROFIT!
They tried having them eat mushrooms, but after a few, the results became unpredictable. Some started playing some nonsense tune about badgers, others just quietly exploded.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
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