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LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mad-max-with-keyboards dept.

Robert Shelton points out this "debrief" from ESCI LiveCoda 2006, a live programming competition. From the article: "On Wednesday the 24th of May at Loop Bar in Melbourne (Australia) fourteen teams of programmers gathered for the first ESCI LiveCoda real-time programming competition. Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition. Before a packed night club with live music, each team had just ten minutes to write a program which could correct a corrupted image." (Here's a mirror of the LiveCoda site).

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  1. I'm sure that this will make the IT trade cooler by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next, can we have Sergei Brinn found passed out in the bathroom stall with six hookers?

  2. The first? by bsartist · · Score: 5, Funny
    Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition.
    In my day we called those "job interviews", and first prize was paid out in weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly installments.
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  3. Geeks? by Ramble · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news geeks have been spotted in a bar near Melbourne, it's rumored to be the first documented case of geeks in an alcoholic establishment and will provide scientists with invaluable data on the migration habits of Australian Spotted Geek (Geekus Oceanus).

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  4. Re:"How long, O Lord?" by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Competitions already are judged on 'fewest bugs'. Indeed, some competitions disqualify any entry that has any bugs found in testing. But all the other criteria you suggest are subjective. I think speed is a pretty good judge of programmer ability; someone who can hack up a correct program in 10 minutes stands a good chance of writing a correct, clear and maintainable program in an hour.

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  5. From the FAQ by Life700MB · · Score: 5, Funny


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  6. Oh the possibilities by kay41 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I shutter to think of the pickup lines that were spoken throughout the evening. After all, us programmers are foreign to this "club" environment. What is this "music" you speak of anyway?

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  7. Personally by celardore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Personally I can think of better things to do in a nightclub, with live music.
    And, if I'm in a nightclub chances are I'm in no fit state to do any coding. Actually, I've had an idea - a coding competition where you have to drink eight beers first!