Okay....admittedly this might sound a little strange, so let me explain where I am coming from on this contest idea. There are lots of people here with different levels of experiance with perl and programming in general. While I understand that any contest is going to test proficiency with perl to a point, I'd like to see a contest where even beginners can compete... What is the contest: It's sort of like a camp game where you write a bit of a story and pass it on to the next person...they get to read only what you wrote, and then they add their bit. At the end you sometimes get really weird stuff, but other times you get neat little stories :) Everyone who wants to participate will be split into teams. Each team must have members with varied experience levels :) Then, basically we will start with a mission to produce code to do something (this will have to be a fairly involved process). Then each person will have a chance to add two lines of code (there will be specific rules such as only one operation allowed per line, or something) and no comments! The next person will know what we are trying to do, but will only get to see the last three lines of the program. The program will keep being passed back and forth among the team until the team thinks they're finished...then whichever team has a working program wins :) So...what do you all think? It will take some work to set up, and of course everyone will be on the honor system, but I think it'll be fun :) --Ivory

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in thread Contest Ideas Quest by vroom

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