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Programming Contest: Multi-threaded applications - by John Kaster
Abstract:Community programming contests have been revived, and the community can
have more involvement than ever in selecting the winners. Read this article for details.
Community programming contests are back! The first contest will run from Tuesday,
Feb 26, 2002 until Friday, Mar 29, 2002.
The challenge
Produce a multi-threaded application that provides visual feedback of the thread progress.
Any multi-thread application can be used. You can write something that do
es
FTP file transfers, plots different parts of a Mandelbrot set or fractal images, do
es database
queries, solves a complex equation, generates prime numbers, do
es word searches or word games,
produces mazes, renders an image, implements a critical path method, finds the best chess move,
does load balancing on a web server, crawls web sites -- basically, whatever application you can
think of that can be used with a multi-threaded algorithm.
Conditions and requirements
You can use any Borland development tool.
You can write any multi-threaded application.
The application must have some type of interface that updates the progress of
the various threads running in the application without requiring action on the
part of the application user.
Complete source code must be provided. You do
not need to provide any source code
that ships with the development tool you choose to write the contest entry.
You must have distribution rights to the source code you provide
You can submit as many contest entries as you want. Each contest entry will be
judged on its own merits.
Entering the contest
We have added new functionality to CodeCentral to support Community programming
contests. The existing rating system will be used by the community to rate
submissions, and any existing CodeCentral entry can be assigned to a contest.
There is now a "Contest" field for CodeCentral submissions. When editing or
creating a new CodeCentral submission, you will now see a drop-down list of all
available contests you can enter with that submission. If you do
n't want to enter
a contest, simply leave this value at "None." You can only select one contest for
the submission. We may have more than one contest running at the same time, so be
sure to select the correct contest option.
The selection process
All submissions must be posted to CodeCentral. You can find the list of contests on
CodeCentral at http://codecentral.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/contests.
The entire community can rate all submissions provided. These ratings will be used to
select the finalists for the contest. Both the number of votes and the average score
of the submission will help in determining the finalists. After the finalists are
selected, our distinguished panel of judges will select the winner and any honorable
mentions. The selection will occur after the contest is completed.
You can rate any contest entries but your own. Please keep in mind that it's not nice
to rate other people's submissions poorly just to make yours better! From the detailed
listing of the submission, simply select the rating you want to assign and click the
"Rate" button. The "Options" link to the right of the Rate button shows the various rating
classification systems. If you're not familiar with the rating classification system, just
keep in mind that the value farthest to the left (numeric value of 1) is the worst, and
the value farthest to the right (numeric value of 5) is the best.
The prize
The contest winner will receive his or her choice of the latest
release of the Pro SKU (or nearest equivalent) of a Borland development
product. Other prizes for honorable mentions, runner ups, good efforts,
and so on, could include T-shirts, mugs, "office safe" soft Borland
frisbees, and so on.
The judges
For this contest, the judges will be members of the Borland DevRel
team -- David Intersimone, Anders Ohlsson, and John Kaster. It is possible
the judges can be influenced, but it is not likely. The decisions of the judges
are final.
This is brand new stuff!
If you have any problems with the interface for submitting or rating
submissions, please report them in the borland.public.codecentral newsgroup.
If you wish to discuss the contests themselves or how we should conduct them,
please use the borland.public.community newsgroup, or leave a comment here on
this article. You can also use a web browser to access the newsgroups at
http://newsgroups.borland.com if you do
n't have a newsgroup reader handy, or
direct newsgroup access.
Thanks for participating, either as a community judge, or a contestant!
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Abstract:Community programming contests have been revived, and the community can
have more involvement than ever in selecting the winners. Read this article for details.
Community programming contests are back! The first contest will run from Tuesday,
Feb 26, 2002 until Friday, Mar 29, 2002.
The challenge
Produce a multi-threaded application that provides visual feedback of the thread progress.
Any multi-thread application can be used. You can write something that do
es
FTP file transfers, plots different parts of a Mandelbrot set or fractal images, do
es database
queries, solves a complex equation, generates prime numbers, do
es word searches or word games,
produces mazes, renders an image, implements a critical path method, finds the best chess move,
does load balancing on a web server, crawls web sites -- basically, whatever application you can
think of that can be used with a multi-threaded algorithm.
Conditions and requirements
You can use any Borland development tool.
You can write any multi-threaded application.
The application must have some type of interface that updates the progress of
the various threads running in the application without requiring action on the
part of the application user.
Complete source code must be provided. You do
not need to provide any source code
that ships with the development tool you choose to write the contest entry.
You must have distribution rights to the source code you provide
You can submit as many contest entries as you want. Each contest entry will be
judged on its own merits.
Entering the contest
We have added new functionality to CodeCentral to support Community programming
contests. The existing rating system will be used by the community to rate
submissions, and any existing CodeCentral entry can be assigned to a contest.
There is now a "Contest" field for CodeCentral submissions. When editing or
creating a new CodeCentral submission, you will now see a drop-down list of all
available contests you can enter with that submission. If you do
n't want to enter
a contest, simply leave this value at "None." You can only select one contest for
the submission. We may have more than one contest running at the same time, so be
sure to select the correct contest option.
The selection process
All submissions must be posted to CodeCentral. You can find the list of contests on
CodeCentral at http://codecentral.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/contests.
The entire community can rate all submissions provided. These ratings will be used to
select the finalists for the contest. Both the number of votes and the average score
of the submission will help in determining the finalists. After the finalists are
selected, our distinguished panel of judges will select the winner and any honorable
mentions. The selection will occur after the contest is completed.
You can rate any contest entries but your own. Please keep in mind that it's not nice
to rate other people's submissions poorly just to make yours better! From the detailed
listing of the submission, simply select the rating you want to assign and click the
"Rate" button. The "Options" link to the right of the Rate button shows the various rating
classification systems. If you're not familiar with the rating classification system, just
keep in mind that the value farthest to the left (numeric value of 1) is the worst, and
the value farthest to the right (numeric value of 5) is the best.
The prize
The contest winner will receive his or her choice of the latest
release of the Pro SKU (or nearest equivalent) of a Borland development
product. Other prizes for honorable mentions, runner ups, good efforts,
and so on, could include T-shirts, mugs, "office safe" soft Borland
frisbees, and so on.
The judges
For this contest, the judges will be members of the Borland DevRel
team -- David Intersimone, Anders Ohlsson, and John Kaster. It is possible
the judges can be influenced, but it is not likely. The decisions of the judges
are final.
This is brand new stuff!
If you have any problems with the interface for submitting or rating
submissions, please report them in the borland.public.codecentral newsgroup.
If you wish to discuss the contests themselves or how we should conduct them,
please use the borland.public.community newsgroup, or leave a comment here on
this article. You can also use a web browser to access the newsgroups at
http://newsgroups.borland.com if you do
n't have a newsgroup reader handy, or
direct newsgroup access.
Thanks for participating, either as a community judge, or a contestant!
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