Events:
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
Senior Programming:- Second Position
Congratulations guys!..rock on!
The qualifiers for tomorrow’s finals are:
Senior Quiz:
Team 1:
Team 2:
Junior Quiz:
Team 1:
Team 2:
Crossword:
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
Cellphone weds Television in 2006
All are invited!
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A meeting will be held in the e-Gurucool lab on Monday, during the fourth period to discuss the participants for each event at Codewars 2004, which is being held on the 15th and 16th of December.
As Test Series+Pre-Boards approaching for students of Class XII
Pre-Boards approaching for students of Class X
It becomes very important for the Exun Members of classes VI-IX & XI to take the charge and become more active in posting articles on lnExun. From a long time, I have not seen, students posting any tech-article, and I would love to see now. The winter break will be the right time to have Exchange of your Web-Reserch, Tech_experience, Tech-readings, etc.
If you wish, we can have a VB.NET session during the winter vacation as per the suggestion given by Mr.Ashwani (Microsoft). I attended one & was really impressed by the new features introduced in it.
Mukesh Kumar
Good day.
Something very disturbing has come to my notice recently. Juniors are disallowed fro Egurucool premises in break.Why?
What possible positive end can be achieved by this, I’d like to know. To have all those resources and then banning people from using them is just about as productive as America’s general elections.
I can understand that they want the senior classes not to be disturbed. Fine, ban people from the stairs that lead up to the classes and down to the labs. Why ban them from the WRC?
Look at prohibition, the Nazi party or whatever you like, banning NEVER helps.
This has even worse repercussions for Exun. If the juniors are not going to meet in break, then when will they meet? The amount of info and skill that was exchanged during break was enormous, and now all that productive potential is going to go to waste.
Something must be done.
Please leave any ideas as to what that something is, in the comments.
— Nisheeth
Hi folks
Thanks to Mr. Mukesh Kumar for inviting me into ln(exun). I’m an employee with Microsoft India – currently responsible for programs related to the Academic Developer Community. I have mostly been in touch with Engineering & MCA colleges but schools cannot be far behind.
Imagine Cup – is a worldwide contest for student developers. This time there are total 12 different contest categories for 2005 edition. Do have a look at http://imagine.thespoke.net for info. Just few things i want to point out here:
a) There is a Software Design category – which will be run as an India round where we select the national winner – who travels to Yokohama for world finals. Details about that in a later posting. All other categories are being run centrally from US right up to the world finals.
b) There are 3 “high-school” categories and 9 “open” categories. So school students can participate in all 12 while a college/masters/Phd student can only participate in 9.
c) Check out details of each category – there are some which have a “country quota” for round 2, so there are more chances of qualifying.
You can reach me at ashwanis@microsoft.com for more on our programmes. I shall be happy to do a session around .NET at your school – if that is something you people whould like to have.
ashwani
After Banning Cell phones, its the turn of the internet getting disconnected from the school premesis. It seems that No Student shall be allowed to use the internet at school. Whatever may be the reason behind this it doesnt really matter. The main thing is that our school, pioneers in integrating computers in a student’s life, is taking a 180 degree turn. Its trying to cut off technology from the school and actually now on the path of regressing. Just a fortnight back, we were asking Sir that when are we going to get a leased line. Now exun batch 2005-06 will ask when do we get any internet in school?
Everything in this planet has a positive side and a negative side… same lies for the internet. It depends on the individual on how he wants to use it. This doesnt mean that it should be all ‘banned’. Solutions have been found out, laws have been made and effort is being put in to counter the negative effects. If the school is feeling that the internet is having too many bad effects, has it tried controlling the bad effects first before banning it? Technology itself has the answer for fixing some of the the negative effects it produces.
Agreed that all negative points cant be eliminated, but are those negative effects so big that they completely shadow the positive effects ? I dont need to go through the list of positives of the WWW. Giving freedom brings in responsibility to 95% of the students but are the remaining 5% so big that the rest of the 95% have to suffer too ? Agreed, Something has to be done about those 5% but banning is not the answer. It sends a wrong message to everyone. finally what I feel, constant guidance to the erring is the answer. If a function in C++ is not working properly, we debug it not delete the function altogether.
-Maanick
P.S. : These are totally my views. If anyone thinks that i am correct or totally or partially incorrect(which I certainly might be!), comment away!
Think things today without connectivity… One feels “oh no how my hand will talk to the head or as if my legs will not move as instructions have not come from the head” (connectivity well existed in the very first creation of the God – the Human Body Parts), we took a lot of time to practically implement it using intenet communication, satelite communication, …
Old people say “We also worked, we also studied, we also had social life – We never had phones” – Cellphones obviously never existed at that time so the statement becomes Absurd.
Yes more communication allows more problems too. The generation of the current time has to understand things more seriously and has to be more responsible. The tools of today are born in the time of current generation – The current generation has to find the solutions to the Problems attached with it before it is to late!!!