WE need to win CODE 2004. The list of all participating is out. Any changes, clarifications or discussions will be made in the break on the 17th of Dec in the E-guru.

Mukesh sir gave me an opportunity to interact with the Program Manager for Windows in Microsoft, India, Mr. Pradeep Parappil. It was interesting to talk to him and to get to know of how they create a ‘hypothetical’ person their client and then cater to his needs to create a universally accepted OS.

As we know, application softwares are designed for a particular person or organization. That is not the case with an OS. An OS needs to be more widely accepted among a larger base of customers which might have little or nothing in common vis-à-vis the solutions they require.

So, Microsoft surveys people all over the world for their lifestyle patterns and the solutions they expect from Microsoft to make them realize their potential. Keeping the slogan of the company in mind, they survey different people which includes students, professionals, corporate-giants, home-users etc.

Integrating the differentiated data that they collect, they make a ‘hypothetical’ person that has all the major requirements and expectations of an OS and ‘see’ that person as their client, thereby developing software that would be a universally accepted solution for requirements of all.

Mr. Pradeep, who interviewed me, is in the team developing the OS after MS Windows Longhorn, presently codenamed as Longhorn+1.

My deepest thanks to Mukesh Sir for giving me a chance to interact with Mr. Pradeep and, although in a small way, for having a contribution from my side for the development of Longhorn+1 to be released in a few years’ time.

In VB 6 is there any way to send a screen of one computer to another (like remote desktop connection) . Any API or command . If anyone knows please tell me.

We’ve bagged the Runners-up though we deserved the overall first place. We lost it because of the Tecathlon which had 420 points, so if any team won the Tecathlon, they would win Codewars irrespective of how many events any other team has won.

Now the individual results

Junior Quiz

1. Dhruv and Gursartaj

3. Manas and Abhishek

Senior Quiz

3. Dhruv and Manas

There was a tie-breaker between both RKP teams for third place.

Junior Programming

1. Abhijit and Anant

Senior Programming

2. Raman and Nikhil

N-Crypton

3. Raman and Nikhil

Contact Morpheus

3. Abhisheyk Gaur

Animathlon

2. Vansh Muttreja

Special Event: Corewars

1. Abhijit Das

Congragulations to him as this was an open event. Well done, Abhijit!

So we performed very well, and we lost only because of Tecathlon which was a team event. But then, it is “We, not I”.

Categories:

Junior – upto X

Senior – all classes

The followinfg events are schedule to take place:-

1. Senior Programming – 1 team(2 members)
   
2. Jr. Programming – 1 team(2 members)
   
3. Senior Quiz – 1 team(2 members)
   
4. Junior Quiz – 1 team(2 members)
5. Crossword – 1 team(2 members)
6. Software Display – 1 team(2 members)
7. Gaming – 2 teams(1 each)
   
8. The Code Quest – 1 team(2 members)
9. AI Wars – 1 team(2 members)
10. Surprise Event – 1 team(2 members)

The teams should be finalized by tomorrow…leave your names in the comments.

Events:

1. Quiz – 2 teams(2 participants each)
2. Gaming – 1 participant
3. Senior Programming(IX-XII) – 1 team(2 participants)
4. Junior Programming(upto VIII) – 1 team(2 participants)
5. Jr. Presentation(upto IX) – 1 Team(2 participants)
6. WebD – 1 team(2 per team)
7. GD – 1 participant
8. Crossword – 2 teams(2 participants each)
9. Ring tone composition – 1 Team(2 participants)

Those of you interested, leave your names in the comments section.I’ll get back to you.Registration closes on Dec 21.

Here’s how things worked out on Day 1 of Code Wars ’04.

The following won:-

Junior Programming:- First Position

• Anant Jain
• Abhijit Das
  

Senior Programming:- Second Position

• Raman Khatri
  
• Nikhil Aggarwal
  

Congratulations guys!..rock on!

The qualifiers for tomorrow’s finals are:

Senior Quiz:

Team 1:

• Bharat Aggarwal
• Abhishek Gaur

Team 2:

• Dhruv Kumar
• Manas Gautam
  

Junior Quiz:

Team 1:

• Gursartaj
• Dhruv

Team 2:

• Abhishek Suri
• Manas Gautam

Crossword:

• Gursartaj
• Abhishek Gaur

Besides the mainstream events, the Techathlon proved to be quite a mind job..it was unfortunate we missed out on the SQ clue but we have the whole of tomorrow..so guys lets crack it!Best of luck to all of you.

Hi

The Visual Gaming (not Visual Gaming High School) is open for submissions. Check out the Visual Gaming section on http://imagine.thespoke.net and http://www.project-hoshimi.com/ for details on how to compete.

Its not really a full Game-development contest but an AI coding contest. You need to code a .NET class with a defined interface that programs the various nanobots in the game. The cool part is that you can plug in classes from different people into a single game and battle your teams – to check where does your algo stand.

Visual Gaming will open for high-school submissions on 10th Jan and you can submit the same solution for the high-school category as well.

Try it out … its really cool

ashwani

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