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ICFP 2005 Programming Contest

Ryan Leavengood

6/23/2005 7:08:00 PM

http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/...

James mentioned this in his Ruby Quiz summary, and I personally think it
might be fun to compete. While I'd be willing to go at it alone, it would
be great to have a nice team that can really represent Ruby well in this
contest.

I figure we can communicate over email and IRC and if we get an
international team we can have people coding virtually 24 hours a day
(with American, European, Japanese and Australian timezones in the mix.)

If anyone else is interested, let me know.

Thanks,
Ryan
7 Answers

Tanner Burson

6/23/2005 7:35:00 PM

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On 6/23/05, Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net> wrote:
> http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/...
>
> James mentioned this in his Ruby Quiz summary, and I personally think it
> might be fun to compete. While I'd be willing to go at it alone, it would
> be great to have a nice team that can really represent Ruby well in this
> contest.
>
> I figure we can communicate over email and IRC and if we get an
> international team we can have people coding virtually 24 hours a day
> (with American, European, Japanese and Australian timezones in the mix.)
>
> If anyone else is interested, let me know.
>
While I'm far from a ruby guru I'd definitely be interested in giving it a go!

> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>


--
===Tanner Burson===
tanner.burson@gmail.com
http://tanner... <---Might even work one day...

Ara.T.Howard

6/23/2005 7:51:00 PM

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Chris M

6/23/2005 8:09:00 PM

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Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/...
>
> James mentioned this in his Ruby Quiz summary, and I personally think it
> might be fun to compete. While I'd be willing to go at it alone, it would
> be great to have a nice team that can really represent Ruby well in this
> contest.
>
> I figure we can communicate over email and IRC and if we get an
> international team we can have people coding virtually 24 hours a day
> (with American, European, Japanese and Australian timezones in the mix.)
>
> If anyone else is interested, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>

I have been using Ruby for a whole week now. But my week's worth of
knowledge is at your disposal if it would help :)
( i do have years and years of programming experience though)

Bill Guindon

6/23/2005 8:26:00 PM

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On 6/23/05, Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net> wrote:
> http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/...
>
> James mentioned this in his Ruby Quiz summary, and I personally think it
> might be fun to compete. While I'd be willing to go at it alone, it would
> be great to have a nice team that can really represent Ruby well in this
> contest.
>
> I figure we can communicate over email and IRC and if we get an
> international team we can have people coding virtually 24 hours a day
> (with American, European, Japanese and Australian timezones in the mix.)
>
> If anyone else is interested, let me know.

I can't jump in, but thought you might find this helpful:
http://www.thekode.net/icfp03/...

> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>


--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)

Ryan Leavengood

6/23/2005 8:30:00 PM

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Chris M said:
>
> I have been using Ruby for a whole week now. But my week's worth of
> knowledge is at your disposal if it would help :)
> ( i do have years and years of programming experience though)

I think the years of programming experience will be very useful, more than
any particular arcane knowledge of Ruby. I consider Ara a Ruby expert and
am pretty skilled in Ruby myself, so I don't think the Ruby part will be
that hard (i.e. if you Ruby Nubies have problems you can ask us.) But
solving the problem itself may be tricky.

Either way this will be a good way for you to jump into the deep end of
using Ruby :)

This applies to Tanner as well.

Ryan

Aleksi

6/28/2005 3:57:00 PM

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Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> international team we can have people coding virtually 24 hours a day

How did it go?

- Aleksi

Ryan Leavengood

6/28/2005 6:30:00 PM

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Aleksi said:
>
> How did it go?

Honestly? Not too well. We started off OK, but several members of the team
had things come up over the weekend that were outside of their control
that prevented them from contributing much to the team.

It also was difficult to get organized as quickly as we needed to, and
once we lost most of the team my motivation for the competition dwindled.
I did make a last minute effort and produced a "no-op" solution to the
first part of the competition.

If we want we can now take the next few weeks to improve our solution for
the first part so we have a good submission for the second part.

The problem was pretty interesting though, so I may make an effort to do
better in the second part (which apparently has more "points" in the
competition.) If anyone wants to help on that, let me know :)

We weren't the only Ruby team though, there was also a team put together
my Mr. RubyQuiz, James Edward Gray II (and maybe more that I don't know
about.)

Ryan