[Lazarus] Introduce programming competitions

Vannus vannus at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 14:51:11 CEST 2010


On 2 June 2010 10:24, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Back in the day, Borland used to host many programming competitions. (eg:
> Multi-threaded, graphics, algorithms etc). They were pretty cool.
>
> Maybe we could start some Free Pascal competitions? Possibly get some
> sponsors for prices, or just for fun. eg: Get your name mentioned on the
> home page of Free Pascal website, get some bragging rights, or even have
> your name mentioned for one release cycle in the FPC logo output (next to
> Florian's name). :-) Apps should involve FPC of course, but should not be
> limited to LCL. We should be able to use Console, Web, LCL, fpGUI, MSEgui
> etc.. as long as the app is written in Object Pascal and compiles with FPC.
> Maybe a wiki page could be started to list competition ideas.
>

Sounds good, if people were given awards for doing stuff, they could put it
in their CV for jobs :)


>
> Most developers here seem to program for a living/work - maybe we could
> actually program for fun for a change. Imagine that! :-)  What's your
> thoughts?
>
> PS:
> I thought of posting this in the fpc-users mailing list, but I think here
> are more developers.
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>

- V
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